UNC-GT ACC Baseball Championship: Game preview, schedule and more
The ACC Baseball Championship will be decided between UNC and Georgia Tech. Get ready for this high-stakes rematch with our preview.
For the second consecutive season, the North Carolina Tar Heels will be playing for an ACC Baseball Championship. No. 2 seed UNC, which advanced to the title game by dominating Pitt in a 13-5 victory on Saturday , will face top seed Georgia Tech at 12 p.
m for the ACC Championship. The Yellow Jackets (47-9, 25-5 ACC) found their way to the championship round with a pair of blowout victories themselves. Tech won a high-scoring, 16-10 affair against Virginia in Friday's quarterfinal round, then earned a comfortable 9-3 victory over Miami (FL) on Saturday.
Sunday will be the Diamond Heels and Yellow Jackets' fourth matchup in 2026, with both teams previously battling throughout a 3-game series in April. North Carolina won the first two games of this Top-10 series , 5-2 and 14-4, before GT avoided the sweep with a 5-2 win. Both UNC and Tech are NCAA Tournament locks, so Sunday's championship clash is mainly for bragging rights.
The Diamond Heels are trying to increase their NCAA Tournament seeding , which a Sunday victory likely does, while the Yellow Jackets may earn the top overall seed with a win themselves. North Carolina's nationally-recognized pitching staff, with arms like Jason DeCaro and Walker McDuffie , will try and limit a Georgia Tech lineup that includes bats like future MLB players Vahn Lackey and Drew Burress. The Jackets have plenty more dangerous bats in their lineup, while any Diamond Heel pitcher can thrive in big moments.