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Atlantic Coast Conference
February 26, 2001 | Baseball
Feb. 26, 2001
The Atlantic Coast Conference
Tradition | Year In Review | Championships | History | 2000 Baseball Review
TRADITION
Consistency. It's the mark of true excellence in any endeavor.
However, in today's intercollegiate athletics, competition has become so balanced and so competitive that it is virtually impossible to maintain a high level of consistency.
Yet the Atlantic Coast Conference has defied the odds. Now in its 48th year of competition, the ACC has long enjoyed the reputation as one of the strongest and most competitive intercollegiate conferences in the nation. ACC schools have captured 79 national champion-ships, including 39 in men's competition and 40 in women's. In addition, 119 men and 29 women have earned the coveted title of NCAA champion.
1999-2000 YEAR IN REVIEW
The 1999-2000 academic year concluded with the league pocketing four more national team titles and five individual NCAA crowns. In all, the ACC has won 36 national team titles the last ten years.
The ACC's 1999-2000 national champions were Maryland in field hockey and women's lacrosse, North Carolina in women's soccer and Florida State in football. Overall, ACC teams posted a 62-46 (.574) mark in NCAA Tournament play.
The ACC placed at least one team in the Top 10 nationally in 19 of the 25 sports sponsored by the league. Other records of note during the 1999-2000 season include 90 teams competing at NCAA Championships, five bowl teams and 34 Top 10 showings.
Fourteen ACC teams, in ten different sports, representing seven of the nine member institutions, earned a No. 1 ranking during the course of the past academic year.
The ACC Academic Honor Roll record was broken for the 13th-straight year in 1998-99 as 1,631 student-athletes were recognized for their work in the classroom.
CHAMPIONSHIPS
The conference will conduct championship competitions in 25 sports during the 2000-01 academic year -- 12 for men and 13 for women. The 2001 ACC Baseball Tournament will be held May 15-20 at Knights Stadium in Fort Mill, S.C.
HISTORY
With the addition of Florida State in 1991, the conference is nine members strong. Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia and Wake Forest all have been members since 1953, the year the ACC was founded. Georgia Tech joined the conference in 1978.
The conference office is led by John Swofford, who is in his third year as ACC commissioner. In addition to overseeing one of the nation's largest athletic conferences, he has been a pivotal force in the formation and development of the Bowl Championship Series to determine a national champion in Division I football. Swofford is a 1971 graduate of North Carolina and played football for the Tar Heels from 1969-71.
| 2000 FINAL ACC BASEBALL STANDINGS | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | W | L | Pct | Home | Road | W | L | T | Pct | Home | Road | Neutral |
| Georgia Tech | 18 | 6 | .750 | 9-3 | 9-3 | 50 | 16 | 0 | .753 | 31-8 | 14-7 | 5-1 |
| Clemson | 17 | 7 | .708 | 10-2 | 7-5 | 51 | 18 | 0 | .739 | 37-5 | 7-8 | 7-5 |
| Florida State | 15 | 9 | .625 | 10-2 | 5-7 | 53 | 19 | 0 | .736 | 36-5 | 13-10 | 4-4 |
| Wake Forest | 14 | 10 | .583 | 7-5 | 7-5 | 41 | 20 | 1 | .669 | 20-6-1 | 15-9 | 6-5 |
| North Carolina | 12 | 12 | .500 | 8-4 | 4-8 | 46 | 17 | 0 | .730 | 30-5 | 10-8 | 6-4 |
| N.C. State | 10 | 14 | .417 | 6-6 | 4-8 | 30 | 28 | 0 | .517 | 24-14 | 5-10 | 1-4 |
| Virginia | 10 | 14 | .417 | 5-7 | 5-7 | 26 | 31 | 1 | .457 | 15-15-1 | 9-13 | 2-3 |
| Maryland | 7 | 17 | .297 | 5-8 | 2-9 | 24 | 33 | 0 | .421 | 14-10 | 9-20 | 1-3 |
| Duke | 5 | 19 | .208 | 1-11 | 4-8 | 17 | 41 | 0 | .302 | 11-24 | 4-14 | 2-3 |
| ? | vs. non-conference: 215-100-2 (.687) | |||||||||||
2000 ACC Tournament (May 16-20, Fort Mill, S.C.) -- May 16: #9 Duke d. #8 Maryland, 6-4. May 17: #4 Wake Forest d. #5 North Carolina 8-7, #1 Georgia Tech d. Duke 9-3, #2 Clemson d. #7 Virginia 9-5, #3 Florida State d. #6 N.C. State 8-6. May 18: North Carolina d. Duke 13-7, Virginia d. N.C. State 9-5, Georgia Tech d. Wake Forest 6-3, Clemson d. Florida State 8-4. May 19: Virginia d. Wake Forest 8-3, Florida State d. North Carolina 4-1, Georgia Tech d. Clemson 8-4. May 20: Georgia Tech d. Florida State 10-3, Clemson d. Virginia 12-5, Georgia Tech d. Clemson 9-8.
2000 All-ACC Tournament Team -- C- Bryan Prince, GT, 1B- Jon Benick, UVa, 2B- Marshall McDougall, FSU, 3B- Khalil Greene, Clem, SS- Tim LaVigne, UVa, OF- Patrick Boyd, Clem, OF- Jason Basil, GT, OF- Brad Stockton, GT, UT/DH- Jeff Baker, Clem, P- Cory Vance, GT, P- Ryan Mottl, Clem, Tournament MVP: Jason Basil, GT
2000 All-Atlantic Coast Conference - First Team: C- Bryan Prince, GT, 1B- Jon Benick, UVa, 2B- Richard Lewis, GT, 3B- Mark Teixeira, GT, SS- ChaseVoshell, WFU, OF- Jason Basil, GT, OF- Chris Smith, FSU, OF- Brian Wright, NCS, UT- Marshall McDougall, FSU, DH- John-Ford Griffin, FSU, SP- Scott Siemon, WFU, SP- Cory Vance, GT, SP- Mike Ziegler- FSU, RP- Derrick DePriest, UNC. Second Team: C- Dan Conway, WFU, 1B- Ryan Barthelemy, FSU, 2B- Robbie Marvin, UVa, 3B- Khalil Greene, Clem, SS- Tim LaVigne, UVa, OF- Adam Greenberg, UNC, OF- Cory Sullivan, WFU, OF- Tyrell Godwin, UNC, UT- Ryan Earey, UNC, DH- Craig Munroe, Md, SP- Jarrod Schmidt, Clem, SP- Eric Schmitt, WFU, SP- Ryan Snare, UNC, RP- Nick Glaser, Clem
ACC Player of the Year -- Mark Teixeira, Georgia Tech
ACC Rookie of the Year -- Adam Greenberg, North Carolina
ACC Coach of the Year -- Danny Hall, Georgia Tech
