Duke baseball’s ACC Championship pool set, will play Virginia Tech on Tuesday

The ACC Baseball Championship bracket pits the Blue Devils against the Hokies and the Wolfpack for a spot in the semifinals.

Duke baseball needs to take down NC State and Virginia Tech in pool play to advance to the ACC Championship semifinals.

The conference released its tournament bracket over the weekend, and the Blue Devils got paired with the Wolfpack and the Hokies for the initial games.

NC State, the third-ranked team in the conference, finished with a 32-19 record overall but with an 18-11 record against ACC opponents. The Hokies finished with a 32-20 overall record, finishing a fraction below .500 in conference play with a 14-16 mark.

The three teams will play each other in a round-robin format, each playing the other once. At the end of pool play, the team with the best record advances to the semifinals.

If two of the three teams remain tied at the end of the proceedings, the team with the highest seed moves on. As the second seed in the pool, Duke holds the tiebreaker over Virginia Tech, but the Wolfpack hold the tiebreaker over them both.

Duke’s first game of the tournament, which takes place at Truist Field in Charlotte, takes place on Tuesday against the Hokies at 7 p.m. The Blue Devils will then play NC State on Thursday at the same time.