Bubble Watch: Where Does Virginia Tech Baseball Stand With One Week To Go?
BLACKSBURG, Va. — At 27-22 (13-14 ACC) entering the final stretch of the regular season, Virginia Tech baseball remains firmly in the middle of the NCAA Tournament bubble conversation, with several major postseason projections placing the Hokies narrowly inside the field.
D1Baseball currently projects Tech as a No. 3 seed in the Morgantown Regional, while Baseball America has the Hokies as a No. 3 seed in the Lincoln Regional and listed among its final teams into the tournament. USA TODAY Sports also included Virginia Tech in its projected field, though its placement in the Tallahassee Regional would ultimately be impossible due to conference-hosting restrictions.
Still, despite differing destinations, the consensus remains the same: the Hokies are hovering directly on the cut line with little margin for error heading into the postseason. Virginia Tech enters its series against Clemson after splitting a two-game set with UNC Greensboro.
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The Hokies currently sit at 39th in the RPI with the 12th hardest schedule in the country thanks to their early-season participation in the Globe Life Classic along with a pair of road matchups against Georgia Tech and Virginia to start conference play.
Now, they take on Clemson — who sits at No. 38 in the RPI — in a three-game slate at home.
While Clemson is behind the Hokies is most bracketology, they are on the bubble, so the Hokies winning would not only give them a major boost heading into the conference tournament, but it would effectively eliminate another team on the bubble.
Another ACC team on the bubble is NC State, who they have the leg up over based on a 2-1 series victory at English Field just a few weeks ago.
Most notably for this upcoming weekend, The Clemson Insider reported that Clemson could be resting star starting pitchers Aidan Knaak and Michael Sherman.
A series win this weekend would effectively lock Virginia Tech into the field, putting them at 15-15 in conference play and top 35 in the RPI as they head to the conference tournament in Charlotte.
PEARatings gives the Hokies a 47.8% chance to win each of the individual games this weekend without factoring in that Clemson could be missing multiple starters.
That gives Virginia Tech a 39.1% chance to win the series this weekend, with a roughly 11% chance at a sweep.
What does this all boil down to? The Hokies absolutely need to win the series this weekend to put themselves firmly on the good side of the bubble heading into the ACC tournament, where there's not much damage that can be done to a resume.
Prediction
To finish this, I will give my own prediction as to where Virginia Tech will end up for this post season.
My estimate is that they will end up in either the Hattiesburg Regional — hosted by Southern Miss — or the Athens Regional, hosted by Georgia.
Both possibilities and any other leaves Virginia Tech as a No. 3 overall seed unless they win the ACC championship next week.
Virginia Tech hosts Clemson for game one of the series tomorrow at 6 p.m. ET
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