How does the 2024 ACC Baseball Championship work?
The ACC Baseball Championship works a bit differently than most ACC postseason tournaments.
It begins with only the top 12 teams making the tournament. They are then seeded and divided into four three-team pools.
- Pool A - UNC, Wake Forest, Pittsburgh
- Pool B - Clemson, Louisville, Miami
- Pool C - NC State, Duke, Virginia Tech
- Pool D - Virginia, Florida State, Georgia Tech
Each team then plays one game against the other teams in their respective pools. The team in each pool with the best record advances to the semifinals. If each team in a given pool split their two games (i.e. finish pool play with one win and one loss), the highest seed would advance. The top seeds in each division are UNC, Clemson, NC State and Virginia.
The winner of Pool A will play the winner of Pool D and the winner of Pool B will play the winner of Pool D in a single elimination semifinals.
The winners of those two games will then face off in a winner-take-all championship game Sunday, May 26 at noon on ESPN2.
All games will be played at Truist Field in Charlotte, North Carolina. That's the home of the Chicago White Sox's Triple-A affiliated club: the Charlotte Knights. For ticketing information, click here.
In addition, North Carolina could really be considered the center of college baseball with UNC, Duke, NC State, Wake Forest and East Carolina all being ranked and expected to compete for a trip to the College World Series. ECU is competing in the 2024 American Baseball Championship at BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater, Florida.