By CLEMSON — After its NCAA super regionals appearance, Clemson baseball finished No. 9 in the final USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll, its highest finish since 2010.
The Tigers (44-16) won the ACC’s Atlantic Division and entered the NCAA tournament as a No. 6 overall seed to host their own regional for the second straight season. They went 3-0 in the Clemson Regional, defeating No. 4 seed High Point and No. 3 seed Coastal Carolina twice to advance to the NCAA super regionals for the first time since 2010.
Clemson went on to lose two straight to Florida in the Clemson Super Regional, but the program has shown growth under coach Erik Bakich. The Tigers’ finished No. 18 in the coaches poll last season after making the NCAA tournament as a No. 4 overall seed but failing to make it out of their regional.
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Six ACC teams made the coaches poll, and Clemson finished behind four teams — Florida State at No. 4, North Carolina at No. 5, Virginia at No. 7 and NC State at No. 8.
Derrian Carter covers Clemson athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email him at dcarter@gannett.com and follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DerrianCarter00
