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As of Saturday night, Stanford is alone in third place in the ACC standings!

Of course, Stanford is 18-6 and Va Tech and Louisville are both 17-6 with Sunday's games remaining. So one of the following two things need to happen for Stanford to *not* fall to the 5th seed for the conference tournament:
* Va Tech loses to Syracuse--first pitch 9 am PT on ACCNX
* Louisville loses (again) to NC State--first pitch 10 am PT on ACCNX


Syracuse has been eliminated from the conference tournament, so Sunday will be their final game of the season.

NC State has secured the 12th and final seed for the conference tournament and will play whoever ends up as the 5th seed on Wednesday. But Sunday will be Senior Day, so there's still plenty of motivation for the Wolfpack to do their best.

I think CTCard's logic is sound.  In a three-way tie for third in the ACC, the head-to-head series loss against Louisville isn't part of the tiebreaker because Virginia Tech didn't play Louisville or Stanford and head-to-head only comes into play in a three way tie if all three teams played against one another or one of the teams won (or lost) series against each of the other teams.  Thus, it goes to the next tiebreaker, common opponents, which is NC State and Louisville would be 2-1 (assuming a win tomorrow to keep them in a three-way tie), while Stanford and Va Tech are 3-0 against NC State, so Louisville winds up getting the fifth seed.  Stanford then loses the two-way tiebreaker against Virginia Tech (lower run-differential versus common opponents).

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[BostonCard]

As of Saturday night, Stanford is alone in third place in the ACC standings!

Of course, Stanford is 18-6 and Va Tech and Louisville are both 17-6 with Sunday's games remaining. So one of the following two things need to happen for Stanford to *not* fall to the 5th seed for the conference tournament:
* Va Tech loses to Syracuse--first pitch 9 am PT on ACCNX
* Louisville loses (again) to NC State--first pitch 10 am PT on ACCNX


Syracuse has been eliminated from the conference tournament, so Sunday will be their final game of the season.

NC State has secured the 12th and final seed for the conference tournament and will play whoever ends up as the 5th seed on Wednesday. But Sunday will be Senior Day, so there's still plenty of motivation for the Wolfpack to do their best.

I think CTCard's logic is sound.  In a three-way tie for third in the ACC, the head-to-head series loss against Louisville isn't part of the tiebreaker because Virginia Tech didn't play Louisville or Stanford and head-to-head only comes into play in a three way tie if all three teams played against one another or one of the teams won (or lost) series against each of the other teams.  Thus, it goes to the next tiebreaker, common opponents, which is NC State and Louisville would be 2-1 (assuming a win tomorrow to keep them in a three-way tie), while Stanford and Va Tech are 3-0 against NC State, so Louisville winds up getting the fifth seed.  Stanford then loses the two-way tiebreaker against Virginia Tech (lower run-differential versus common opponents).

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