The ACC’s 14 head baseball coaches have picked Virginia Tech to finish sixth in the Coastal Division in the league’s preseason poll.
Florida State was picked to win the Atlantic Division and the overall conference championship. The coaches voted Georgia Tech as the favorite to win the Coastal Division.
Florida State finished 31-24 overall last season, placed third in the Atlantic Division, and was one of eight ACC teams selected to compete in the NCAA Tournament. FSU earned three league postseason individual honors with catcher Mat Nelson voted the ACC Player of the Year and Parker Messick joining NC State’s Carlos Rodon (2012) as the second player in conference history to be voted ACC Pitcher and Freshman of the Year in the same season.
Messick has been named the National Preseason Pitcher of the Year by Perfect Game, and the Seminoles have been ranked among the nation’s top 15 in every major preseason poll released thus far.
Nine ACC teams have been ranked in at least one major poll during the 2022 preseason, and 15 different ACC players have been named to at least one preseason All-America Team.
The ACC has placed at least one team in each of the last 15 College World Series and at least six teams in each of the last 17 NCAA Tournaments.
All 14 ACC baseball teams open their seasons on Friday, Feb. 18, with conference play set to begin on Friday, March 11. The 15-game ACC Baseball Championship will be held May 24-29 at Truist Field in Charlotte for the second consecutive season. Full ticket books are currently available by visiting CharlotteKnights.com or by calling the Knights Ticket Office at 704-274-8282.
Full results of the 2022 ACC Baseball Coaches Preseason Poll with first-place votes in parenthesis:
Overall Champion: Florida State
Atlantic Division: 1. Florida State (8); 2. NC State (1); 3. Notre Dame (3) 4. Louisville (2) 5. Clemson 6. Wake Forest 7. Boston College.
Coastal Division: 1. Georgia Tech (8) 2. Virginia (5) 3. Miami (1) 4. Duke 5. North Carolina 6. Virginia Tech 7. Pitt.
