UNC Baseball: Weekend Preview at Duke

With UNC’s planned midweek game at UNC Wilmington cancelled, the Diamond Heels have just three games left in their regular season before the ACC Tournament and Selection Monday after that. Those three games are pretty hugely consequential — the Tar Heels will be playing at Duke this weekend in a series that could make UNC the ACC’s overall regular season champion and will have quite a lot to do with the selection committee’s assessment of the two teams’ fitness to be national seeds. The series will go Thursday-Friday-Saturday to leave some room between the last game and the start of the postseason, with the following start times:

Series Schedule vs Duke

After a decisive win hosting Campbell followed by a sweep of a then-hot Louisville team, UNC’s human rankings are catching up to the computer ones, and they’re a consensus top-5-ish team in good position to be a top-8 seed in the NCAA Tournament.