Bracket, schedule announced for 2022 ACC Baseball Tournament

As the college baseball season comes to a close and the postseason kicks off, the bracket and schedule for the ACC Tournament is now set in stone. Ahead of the first round on Tuesday, the conference has laid out the path to the championship game and an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.

While the ACC promises to be very well-represented this year, there are still bubble teams or programs in a down year who can flip the script with one long win streak over the next week to serve as bracket busters.

Duke enters the week as defending champions, winning in 2021 after the 2020 tournament was cancelled in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The win was the first in school history and the first for head coach Chris Pollard, pulling off one of the most improbable runs against the higher-ranked teams.

The ACC utilizes a unique system, starting the week with pool play which creates four pods of three teams which play each other throughout the week. The winner of each pod advances to the weekend in a regular bracket format.

2022 ACC baseball tournament bracket

Pool A

1. Virginia Tech, 8. North Carolina, 12. Clemson

Pool B

2. Louisville, 7. Georgia Tech, 11. Pitt

Pool C

3. Miami, 6. Wake Forest, 10. NC State

Pool D

4. Notre Dame, 5. Virginia, 9. Florida State

Each team will play their pool opponents in one game, Tuesday through Friday (May 24-27). The four teams with the best record in their respective pools will advance to the semifinals on Saturday, with the winners playing on Sunday in the ACC Championship Game. The ACC is expected to release the pool-matchup scheduling early Sunday morning.

Saturday

Pool A winner vs. Pool D winner at 1 p.m. on ACC Network

Pool B winner vs. Pool C winner at 5 p.m. on ACC Network

Sunday

Championship Game at 12 p.m. on ESPN2

All times listed in local (Eastern) time