ACC Baseball Tournament info — seeding, location, bracket, tickets

The regular season is done! Long live the baseball postseason.

This year, the ACC Baseball world will convene in Charlotte to play at the Knights’ stadium and crown another champion. It’s an opportunity for some teams to get one or two more quality wins for their resume before the NCAA Tournament Bracket comes out next weekend. It’s a chance for others to set themselves up for a post season run, while the rest will be looking to pull out a miracle as a last chance to get into the NCAA field.

As Carolina fans you get to basically sit back and watch everything play out. Here’s all the info you need for the week ahead:

Location

The Championship will be played at Truist Field in Uptown (don’t you dare saw downtown) Charlotte.

Dates

Games will start tomorrow, May 19th, with a planned four-game slate on both Tuesday and Wednesday. The quarterfinals will start on Thursday, May 21st with two games a day, followed by the semifinals on Saturday ahead of the title match at noon on Sunday.

Seed

Despite the Tar Heels taking two of three from Georgia Tech earlier in the year, the Yellow Jackets pulled off the best record in the league and earned the top seed. Carolina grabbed the number two seed.

Bracket

Here’s the path each team faces:

A reminder that the ACC changed up the “jamboree” format and went with this straight bracket. While it means that it is now possible a team will travel all the way to Charlotte for one game, this ultimately was preferred by everyone as it’s easier to understand, and eliminates the idea that a top-seeded team can lose and still make the semifinals. It also helps for planning, as any sort of weather delay now has the time built in on Thursday and Friday to make it all up.

Carolina’s path

As the two seed, Carolina won’t have the extra day off that Georgia Tech and Boston College potentially have to rest their arms. Instead, to win the title, they’ll have to play three in a row like any other weekend series. Since it’s single elimination, it perhaps will give the Tar Heels the best preparation they could ask for going into the first round of the NCAA Tournament next weekend, which they will almost certainly host at the Bosh. That format could have you play three different teams in a three-to-four day span, and being able to adjust to move on to the Super Regional is key.

Carolina will first face either Notre Dame, Clemson, or Virginia Tech in the quarterfinals. The winner that advances will have just played on Wednesday, meaning they can throw all the arms they need to in order to try and get by Carolina on Friday. The Tar Heels swept Notre Dame and took two out of three against Clemson, but notably haven’t played Virginia Tech this season.

If successful, the semifinals would see Carolina play one of Louisville, Pitt, Wake Forest, or Florida State. Get by that round, and it’s the ultimate winner of the top half of the bracket where Georgia Tech is a strong favorite.

How to Watch

The ACC Network will have you covered all the way through the semifinals, and the title game will be on ESPN2.

Going in Person

Theacc.com has your info on the cost to attend each session. There is the ability to buy an all-access ticket for the whole tournament, as well as just a weekend pass if you want to secure your seats for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If you’re in the Charlotte area and watch to catch one of the preliminary games during Tuesday or Wednesday, the tickets come with a $10 concession credit.

We’ll follow along and see if Carolina can raise the ACC title in back-to-back seasons. It’ll be a tough road to do so but hopefully they’ll have a lot of support in the crowd.