ACC Baseball Tourney:

Gets started today:
noon: Virginia vs. BC
4:00: Miami vs. FSU
8:00: Clemson vs. N.C. State

State & BC need a good showing to make the NCAA.

 

perspective from one of the "experts"

here's how Aaron Fitt at Baseball America sees it:

Atlantic Coast Conference (8 total bids)
SAFELY IN: Virginia, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Miami, Virginia Tech, Clemson
ON THE BUBBLE (IN): North Carolina State, North Carolina
ON THE BUBBLE (OUT): Boston College
North Carolina State and North Carolina both helped themselves considerably with sweeps of Duke and Virginia Tech in their regular-season finales. The Wolfpack has overcome its atrocious nonconference strength of schedule to climb into the top 50 of the RPI, which nicely buttresses a resume that includes marquee series wins against Virginia and Georgia Tech. The 'Pack is pretty secure as long as it avoids an 0-3 showing in the ACC tournament, though two or more wins would give it more breathing room.
North Carolina still missed the conference tournament despite sweeping the Hokies to finish the regular season tied with Boston College for eighth place in the conference, because the Eagles won the tie-breaker by virtue of a win against second-place Georgia Tech, which swept UNC. North Carolina finished strong, winning three of its final four series including a road set against Clemson, and the committee likes teams that finished strong. The Tar Heels also rank 19th in the RPI, 25 spots ahead of Boston College. UNC's strong finish, combined with awful weeks for fellow bubble dwellers Kansas, Texas Tech, Tennessee and Kentucky, puts it in pretty good shape to become the first team to miss the ACC tournament and still snag an at-large bid.
Boston College, though, is in trouble despite making it to Greensboro. The Eagles are just 29-26 overall (compared to UNC's 36-20 mark) and are just 8-20 against the top 50, and they finished with a sputter, losing their last three series. BC needs to make a serious run in the ACC tournament to have a shot.

 

game 1

UVa. rallies for a 6-4 opening game win over BC.

 

NCSU wins vs. Clemson

Not agreeing with all the Pack's pitching changes tonight, but great to win when you need all the wins you can get.

 

day 2

all 3 games the lower seeded team won.

15K's by the VT pitcher vs. GT. wow. I guess if a pitcher really has his stuff, doesn't matter if you have a wood or aluminum bat. need a boat paddle maybe.

 

nuts that BC came back on miami. down 10-5 in the bottom of the ninth. i think four of the runs were with two outs.

then FSU, on a four-game losing streak, hammers no. 1 virginia, which had won 17 of its last 18. FSU hit five homers.

it aint over till its over.

 

I've followed it for many years

it's college baseball.

 

VT vs. NCSU the idiot Dan Bonner just said that the VT SS Tim Smalling, from Raleigh, transfered from Arkansas, to be closer to home. Huh? Raleigh is where he grew up and last I looked, NCSU is pretty close.

Tim was the NC HS 4A player of the year.

If he wanted to be closer to home then how in hell and half of Georgia did the Pack not snatch up this big time player?

Wow!

 

Pack bats alive!!! 5-1 in the top of 3rd.

 

I vaguely recall something

Fish, can't remember like I once did...............but I seem to recall something about Tim Smalling attending NCSU for one semester before he went to Arkansas. Don't know if he was on the NCSU baseball team / scholarship or not??

check that out w/ some of your Wolfpack contacts in the know! and let me know what you find out. Maybe I dreamed it???

here's a nice link I found about him transferring from Ark. to VT:

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stor...-transfer-ready-to-make-difference-for-hokies

man, Kyle Wilson was motoring around those bases just now!
Go Pack; now let's not blow this lead............Hope Mazzoni keeps throwing well. Maybe we won't have to turn it over to the bullpen.