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UNC Baseball earns No. 3 spot in Lubbock Regional

By Andrew Reynolds

CHAPEL HILL, NC - FEBRUARY 19: An Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and NCAA game baseball during a game between High Point and North Carolina at Boshamer Stadium on February 19, 2020 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo by Andy Mead/ISI Photos/Getty Images)
CHAPEL HILL, NC - FEBRUARY 19: An Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and NCAA game baseball during a game between High Point and North Carolina at Boshamer Stadium on February 19, 2020 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo by Andy Mead/ISI Photos/Getty Images) /
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The North Carolina Tar Heels will represent the No.3  in the Lubbock  Regional Tournament seed after being selected Monday afternoon and begin play on Friday against UCLA.

With a win over Atlantic Coast Conference rival NC State on Friday, it gave the UNC Baseball program enough credit to earn the No.3 spot in the Lubbock Regional Tournament.

According to R.L. Bynum, the Tar Heels were one of the last four teams that made the field of 64 teams in this 2021 NCAA Tournament. This is the first time North Carolina is not a regional host since 2014.

The competition is tough, obviously the best 64 teams, but the Tar Heels share a regional with the Texas Tech Red Raiders who finished the regular season 35-13 and ranked No.5 in the country. The UCLA Bruins are another stout team who finished with a 35-18 record, and the Tar Heels next opponent. Army West Point sported a 28-23 record as well.

This is the 19th time UNC clinched a spot in the NCAA Tournament in the last 22 seasons and is the 33rd time in program history. Despite a rough patch with the Georgia Tech weekend series, and the loss to Pittsburgh to open up the ACC Tournament, North Carolina is 6-4 over their last 10 games.

The team played the last month of games with a sense of urgency as they headed into the final games of the regular season. After a weekend series sweep of Louisville in mid-May, Coach Forbes spoke about the momentum the team had:

“I also told them before the series starts that the most dangerous teams in my coaching career are the ones this time of year that are playing together. But also they know they can’t take a day off, and they’ve got some talent and all of a sudden they get hot— those teams can get really dangerous and that’s what we hope to be.”

Here is the how the schedule shakes out in this double-elimination tournament:

Friday, June 4

Game 1- Texas Tech vs Army West Point, 12 p.m.

Game 2- North Carolina vs UCLA, 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 5

Game 3- Loser of Game 1 vs Loser of Game 2

Game 4- Winner of Game 1 vs Winner of Game 2

Sunday, June 6

Game 5- Winner of Game 3 vs Loser of Game 4

Game 6- Winner of Game 5 vs Winner of Game 4

Monday, June 7 (if necessary)

Game 7- Same teams as Game 6

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