baseball

North Carolina climbs into top 5 of D1Baseball poll

โ€ขYahoo Sports

UNC climbs to No. 3 in the D1Baseball Top 25 after a road series win at Clemson, giving the Tar Heels their first top-5 ranking this season.

North Carolina is coming off a huge road series win over Clemson and now lands in the top five of the D1Baseball rankings for the first time this season. It is the Tar Heelsโ€™ highest ranking in the D1Baseball Top 25 since last season, when they were the No. 1 team in the country to end the regular season.

Before this week, their highest ranking in the Top 25 was No. 6. North Carolina (30-6-1) is the second-highest ranked team in the ACC, behind Georgia Tech, which is No.

2. Joining UNC and Georgia Tech in the Top 25 are Florida State (No. 8), Virginia (No.

9) and Boston College (No. 24). The ACC is tied with the Big 12 for the second-most teams in the Top 25 with five, behind the SEC, which has 10.