The official ACC Tournament schedule

[BenSherman]

2026 ACC Baseball Championship Schedule
Tuesday, May 19
Game 1 – No. 16 Duke vs. No. 9 NC State, 9 a.m.
Game 2 – No. 12 Stanford vs. No. 13 California, 1 p.m.
Game 3 – No. 15 Clemson vs. No. 10 Notre Dame, 5 p.m.
Game 4 – No. 14 Pitt vs. No. 11 Louisville, 9 p.m.

Wednesday, May 20
Game 5 – Game 1 winner vs. No. 8 Virginia, 9 a.m.
Game 6 – Game 2 winner vs. No. 5 Miami, 1 p.m.
Game 7 – Game 3 winner vs. No. 7 Virginia Tech, 5 p.m.
Game 8 – Game 4 vs. No. 6 Wake Forest, 9 p.m.

Thursday, May 21
Game 9 – Game 5 Winner vs. No. 1 Georgia Tech, 3 p.m.
Game 10 – Game 6 Winner vs. No. 4 Boston College, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 22
Game 11 – Game 7 Winner vs. No. 2 North Carolina, 3 p.m.
Game 12 – Game 8 Winner vs. No. 3 Florida State, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 23
Game 13 – Game 9 vs. Game 10 Winner, 1 p.m.
Game 14 – Game 11 vs. Game 12 Winner, 5 p.m.

Sunday, May 24 - Championship Game
Game 15 – Saturday Winners, Noon, ESPN2

All Tuesday through Saturday games air on ACC Network

 

[floridahighschoolcoach]

So Stanford and Cal
Get to fly all the way across the country just to play each other again in Charlotte. You can't make this up if you wanted to.

 

[unctarheel1984]

Clemson/ND winner vs. VT plays UNC

 

[UNC76]

Weather looks iffy in Charlotte starting Thursday. Let's hope the weathermen are wrong again.

 

[psychoheel]

Weather looks iffy in Charlotte starting Thursday. Let's hope the weathermen are wrong again.

Concerned about the same thing. Don’t want to a situation like 2023.

 

[Rockheel1650]

So Stanford and Cal
Get to fly all the way across the country just to play each other again in Charlotte. You can't make this up if you wanted to.

And one of those only gets 1 game! Absurd arrangement

 

[HeelYeah2012]

Concerned about the same thing. Don’t want to a situation like 2023.

Remind me what happened in 2023?

 

[UNC76]

Remind me what happened in 2023?

The threat of rain later in the day forced the 2 semifinal games to be played at the same time on different fields. One was played at the DBAP and the other was played at Boshamer.

 

[HoopsHeel]

So Stanford and Cal
Get to fly all the way across the country just to play each other again in Charlotte. You can't make this up if you wanted to.

That’s the ACC for you

 

[unctarheel1984]

And one of those only gets 1 game! Absurd arrangement

Can you propose a better tournament format for 18 teams?

 

[HeelYeah2012]

NC State and Duke squaring off at 9am on a Tuesday greatly pleases me.

 

[HeelYeah2012]

Interesting that we ended up winning series against 7 of the 8 worst teams in the league seeded #9-16 (AKA the teams who play on Tuesday). Only Tuesday team we didn’t play and beat is Stanford.

We played just one of the teams seeded #5-8 and that was our only series loss (Virginia).

And then of course we played and beat #1 GT and #4 BC.

Said more simply, the 5 teams we avoided playing this year finished #3, #5, #6, #7 and #12 in the standings.

 

[unctarheel1984]

Ewww. Gotta love a 9 AM game.

 

[unctarheel1984]

Interesting that we ended up winning series against 7 of the 8 worst teams in the league seeded #9-16 (AKA the teams who play on Tuesday). Only Tuesday team we didn’t play and beat is Stanford.

We played just one of the teams seeded #5-8 and that was our only series loss (Virginia).

And then of course we played and beat #1 GT and #4 BC.

Said more simply, the 5 teams we avoided playing this year finished #3, #5, #6, #7 and #12 in the standings.

Perhaps you should consider that UNC winning all those series contributed to those teams’ poor records.

 

[HeelYeah2012]

Perhaps you should consider that UNC winning all those series contributed to those teams’ poor records.

I mean, sure. 3 out of each of those teams’ 30 ACC games were against us.

There are unbalanced schedules throughout the league but I think it’s clear UNC got a pretty good draw this year not facing FSU, Miami, Wake, VT and Stanford as our 5 teams we didn’t play. No more and no less.

Not saying it’s a huge deal, just an observation. We went 22-8 in the league and fully deserve our top 8 seed (really we should be in the top 4 or 5). But it’s true we only won 2 series against teams who are firmly in the NCAAT, plus NC State who is right on the bubble.

 

[floridahighschoolcoach]

What do you think? Let Cal play at Stanford tomorrow morning at 9 local time then let the winner get on a plane to Charlotte and they will play on Wednesday. The ACC would never do it but I bet if they gave both teams this option they take it in a minute.

 

[uncbornbred]

What do you think? Let Cal play at Stanford tomorrow morning at 9 local time then let the winner get on a plane to Charlotte and they will play on Wednesday. The ACC would never do it but I bet if they gave both teams this option they take it in a minute.

no way i can argue against this scenario ... only "tweak" i might suggest, would to position the winner in the late (Game 8) slot

agree it would never be considered by league administration ...

soooooo logical and would ABSOLUTELY (imo) be the right thing to do for the players

GO HEELS

 

[CoopCupp]

I mean, sure. 3 out of each of those teams’ 30 ACC games were against us.

There are unbalanced schedules throughout the league but I think it’s clear UNC got a pretty good draw this year not facing FSU, Miami, Wake, VT and Stanford as our 5 teams we didn’t play. No more and no less.

Not saying it’s a huge deal, just an observation. We went 22-8 in the league and fully deserve our top 8 seed (really we should be in the top 4 or 5). But it’s true we only won 2 series against teams who are firmly in the NCAAT, plus NC State who is right on the bubble.

We beat GaTech in a series handily. Run ruled them in game2. Enough said

 

[floridahighschoolcoach]

it's not just that they are on the west coast but they are practically in each other's back yard. I hope someone from both schools has suggested this?