Latest NCAA Tournament projections for Clemson baseball entering ACC regular season finale

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14-05-2025

Latest NCAA Tournament projections for Clemson baseball entering ACC regular season finale
The Clemson Tigers have only one weekend left in the 2025 ACC baseball regular season and are looking to snap a string of three straight weekend series losses.
Clemson gave up 23 runs over the final two games of its most recent series, dropping back-to-back games to a hot-hitting Duke Blue Devils team. Since the Tigers' 3-0 shutout win over a top five Georgia Bulldogs team on April 22, they've gone just 2-8 in their last 10 games.
Erik Bakich's team is down another four spots to No. 13 in this week's USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll and is now 38-15 overall and 15-12 in ACC play. The Tigers also fell five spots in the RPI to No. 14 and will close regular-season play against the Pitt Panthers beginning Thursday at Cost Field.
Here are the latest postseason projections for Clemson baseball as of May 14.
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Here's where the major outlets see Clemson on the seed line for the 2025 NCAA Tournament entering the final weekend of ACC regular season play.
Baseball America: Clemson is No. 14 overall seed, hosting Ole Miss (35-17), Kansas (39-14) and Rhode Island (33-19) in Clemson Regional at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.
D1 Baseball: Clemson is a two-seed projection, visiting host Coastal Carolina (41-11) in Conway Regional with Cincinnati Bearcats (29-22) and Yale Bulldogs (30-12).
USA TODAY Sports, The Tennessean: Clemson is a two-seed projection, visiting host Alabama (39-13) in Tuscaloosa Regional with Northeastern (41-9) and Wright State (32-17).
On3: Clemson is No. 14 overall seed, hosting Ole Miss, Northeastern and High Point (37-15) in Clemson Regional at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.
"Clemson is another team that is trending dangerously close to the hosting bubble right now," On3's Jonathan Wagner said earlier this week. "The Tigers have dropped three straight series, now 38-15 overall, 15-12 in the ACC and No. 14 in RPI, with a 6-10 Q1 record. Clemson can't afford to lose their final series of the year at Pitt, and a strong showing in the conference tournament would be big to solidify themselves as a host."
Baseball America dropped Clemson five spots in its list of regional site hosts this week to No. 14. D1 Baseball moved the Tigers from the projected No. 10 overall seed into its list of potential hosts with ACC rival Georgia Tech as well as UC Irvine, Dallas Baptist and Ole Miss.
Three teams edge just ahead of Clemson in The Tennessean's host site projections: Tennessee, UCLA and Oregon State.
NCAA Baseball Tournament top five seed projections, updated May 14
Despite losing back-to-back weekend series (to Arkansas and Florida), the Texas Longhorns (40-10) remain the projected No. 1 overall seed by the four outlets mentioned above. Baseball America has LSU as the No. 2 seed, Auburn at No. 3, Georgia at No. 4, and Arkansas rounding out the top five.
D1 Baseball also has LSU as the No. 2 seed, with Arkansas at No. 3. Florida State and Vanderbilt round out their projected top five seeds after the Seminoles took two of three from California in Berkeley on Sunday.
Clemson schedule 2025
The Tigers face the Pitt Panthers (27-23 overall, 10-17 conference) beginning at 6 p.m. ET Thursday. The series can be streamed on ACC Network Extra. Pitt dropped two of three to Wake Forest in its last series.
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