The Atlantic Coast Conference is restructuring the conference’s baseball tournament.
The changes include expanding the field to 12 teams and culminating in a four-team, single-elimination bracket to determine the league’s champion.
The conference is one of the best overall leagues in collegiate baseball annually and over the last few years the league has limited the conference tournament to the league’s top 10 records from the regular season.
The winners of four three-team pools will advance to the semifinal.
UNC missed the ACC tournament last season, despite being No. 19 in the nation’s RPI rankings; Carolina was the highest ranked team not to make the NCAA Tournament after missing the conference tournament.
The 2017 Championship will be held in late May at Louisville Slugger Field in Louisville, Kentucky. The 2017 conference tournament was scheduled to be held in Durham but was moved over North Carolina’s House Bill 2.
The expansion of the ACC Tournament was made at the conference’s fall meeting, which was held in Chapel Hill this week.
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