University of North Carolina Athletics
Friday, February 14
Chapel Hill, N.C.
12 PM
North Carolina
vs
Texas Tech
Photo by: ANTHONY SORBELLINI
Diamond Heels Open 2025 Season Against Texas Tech
February 13, 2025 | Baseball
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - North Carolina baseball opens its 135th season with a weekend series against Texas Tech, the first ever trip to Chapel Hill for the Red Raiders.
SCHEDULE
Game 1: Friday, Feb. 14 - 12 PM ET
Game 2: Friday, Feb. 14 - 1 hour after GM1
Game 3: Saturday, Feb. 15 - 2 PM ET
Follow @DiamondHeels on Twitter for the latest updates on game times with potential weather this weekend.
No. 6 North Carolina Tar Heels
Head Coach..........................................Scott Forbes
Career Record........................154-89 (Fifth Season)
Record at North Carolina.................................Same
Career vs. Texas Tech.........................................0-1
Texas Tech Red Raiders
Head Coach............................................ Tim Tadlock
Career Record....................... 453-243 (13th Season)
Record at Texas Tech........................................Same
Career vs. UNC.....................................................1-0
FIRST PITCH
➤ The Tar Heels are 88-44-2 all-time on opening day and have won five of the last six season openers.
➤ Carolina is 44-8 in home openers at Boshamer Stadium, dating back to its opening in 1972.
➤ It is the seventh straight season the team has opened up at home, going 5-1 in those contests. Defeating
Xavier (2019), Middle Tennessee State (2020), James Madison (2021), Seton Hall (2022), and Wagner (2024)
along the way.
➤ The Tar Heels are hoping to win their season-opening series for the 11th consecutive year. UNC is 27-3 in its
season-opening series games since 2015.
➤ UNC is playing their first opening day double header since doing so against Xavier in 2012. Carolina won the
first and lost the second that day, but won the series on Sunday by a score of 16-10.
➤ Head coach Scott Forbes' squad is on a mission to make it to the College World Series in back-to-back years
for the first time since the team went to four in a row from 2006-09.
NO PLACE LIKE THE BOSH
➤ The Tar Heels boasted a 37-3 record at Boshamer Stadium last season, winning a program record 92.5 percent of its games at home.
➤ The previous highest complete season winning percentage at Boshamer Stadium was 92.3 in 2011 (36-3) and 1985 (24-2).
➤ UNC opened the season with 23 consecutive wins at Boshamer Stadium before suffering its first home loss (4/16 vs. Coastal Carolina), setting a program record for most consecutive home wins to start a season.
➤ The 23 victories were a part of a school record 27 straight wins at Boshamer Stadium, including the final four games of the 2023 campaign.
➤ Only Tennessee (40) had more home wins than the Tar Heels in 2024, and only UC Santa Barbara and Oregon State had fewer losses (2).
➤ It was the 13th time in program history the Tar Heels won 30 or more home games.
➤ The Tar Heels have won 76.7 percent of their home games since 2021, going 112-34.
STARTING OUT HOT
➤ North Carolina extended its streak of season opening series wins to 10 straight years with a sweep of Wagner in 2024.
➤ The Tar Heels have won all 15 of their season opening series at Boshamer Stadium since its renovation in 2009.
➤ The last time UNC lost its first home series of the year was in 2002 to Seton Hall.
➤ A hot start has been a staple of head coach Scott Forbes' teams. Carolina won six consecutive games at the beginning of the 2021 and 22 seasons while going 4-1 and 5-0 to kick of 23 and 24.
RUNNING THE GAUNTLET
➤ Never one to shy away from a challenge, Forbes and company have laid out yet another stacked schedule in front of them.Â
➤ 19 of the 28 opponents the team is set to face finished 2024 inside the top-100 of the RPI, 13 were inside the top-65.
➤ 11 of the teams made the NCAA postseason, four advanced to the Super Regionals, and two more (Florida State and NC State).Â
➤ According to D1Baseball, the Tar Heels have the toughest non-conference schedule of anyone in the ACC by Quad Score.
➤ 20 of those 25 non-con matchups will be played in the friendly confines of Boshamer Stadium.
➤ Carolina holds a 448-118 record all-time against its 28 scheduled foes.
NON-CON COMBAT
➤ The Heels have compiled a 76-30 (.716) record in games against non-ACC opponents under Forbes. The 2024 team was 24-6 outside of conference play.
➤ Since 2020, UNC has won eight of its nine three game non-conference weekend series with a 20-6 mark in that span.Â
➤ In his four years at the helm, Forbes has only faced a Big 12 opponent three times. He swept two games against West Virginia in last year's Super Regional and lost his only contest against the Red Raiders in the Lubbock Regional in 2021.
SCHEDULE
Game 1: Friday, Feb. 14 - 12 PM ET
Game 2: Friday, Feb. 14 - 1 hour after GM1
Game 3: Saturday, Feb. 15 - 2 PM ET
Follow @DiamondHeels on Twitter for the latest updates on game times with potential weather this weekend.
No. 6 North Carolina Tar Heels
Head Coach..........................................Scott Forbes
Career Record........................154-89 (Fifth Season)
Record at North Carolina.................................Same
Career vs. Texas Tech.........................................0-1
Texas Tech Red Raiders
Head Coach............................................ Tim Tadlock
Career Record....................... 453-243 (13th Season)
Record at Texas Tech........................................Same
Career vs. UNC.....................................................1-0
FIRST PITCH
➤ The Tar Heels are 88-44-2 all-time on opening day and have won five of the last six season openers.
➤ Carolina is 44-8 in home openers at Boshamer Stadium, dating back to its opening in 1972.
➤ It is the seventh straight season the team has opened up at home, going 5-1 in those contests. Defeating
Xavier (2019), Middle Tennessee State (2020), James Madison (2021), Seton Hall (2022), and Wagner (2024)
along the way.
➤ The Tar Heels are hoping to win their season-opening series for the 11th consecutive year. UNC is 27-3 in its
season-opening series games since 2015.
➤ UNC is playing their first opening day double header since doing so against Xavier in 2012. Carolina won the
first and lost the second that day, but won the series on Sunday by a score of 16-10.
➤ Head coach Scott Forbes' squad is on a mission to make it to the College World Series in back-to-back years
for the first time since the team went to four in a row from 2006-09.
NO PLACE LIKE THE BOSH
➤ The Tar Heels boasted a 37-3 record at Boshamer Stadium last season, winning a program record 92.5 percent of its games at home.
➤ The previous highest complete season winning percentage at Boshamer Stadium was 92.3 in 2011 (36-3) and 1985 (24-2).
➤ UNC opened the season with 23 consecutive wins at Boshamer Stadium before suffering its first home loss (4/16 vs. Coastal Carolina), setting a program record for most consecutive home wins to start a season.
➤ The 23 victories were a part of a school record 27 straight wins at Boshamer Stadium, including the final four games of the 2023 campaign.
➤ Only Tennessee (40) had more home wins than the Tar Heels in 2024, and only UC Santa Barbara and Oregon State had fewer losses (2).
➤ It was the 13th time in program history the Tar Heels won 30 or more home games.
➤ The Tar Heels have won 76.7 percent of their home games since 2021, going 112-34.
STARTING OUT HOT
➤ North Carolina extended its streak of season opening series wins to 10 straight years with a sweep of Wagner in 2024.
➤ The Tar Heels have won all 15 of their season opening series at Boshamer Stadium since its renovation in 2009.
➤ The last time UNC lost its first home series of the year was in 2002 to Seton Hall.
➤ A hot start has been a staple of head coach Scott Forbes' teams. Carolina won six consecutive games at the beginning of the 2021 and 22 seasons while going 4-1 and 5-0 to kick of 23 and 24.
RUNNING THE GAUNTLET
➤ Never one to shy away from a challenge, Forbes and company have laid out yet another stacked schedule in front of them.Â
➤ 19 of the 28 opponents the team is set to face finished 2024 inside the top-100 of the RPI, 13 were inside the top-65.
➤ 11 of the teams made the NCAA postseason, four advanced to the Super Regionals, and two more (Florida State and NC State).Â
➤ According to D1Baseball, the Tar Heels have the toughest non-conference schedule of anyone in the ACC by Quad Score.
➤ 20 of those 25 non-con matchups will be played in the friendly confines of Boshamer Stadium.
➤ Carolina holds a 448-118 record all-time against its 28 scheduled foes.
NON-CON COMBAT
➤ The Heels have compiled a 76-30 (.716) record in games against non-ACC opponents under Forbes. The 2024 team was 24-6 outside of conference play.
➤ Since 2020, UNC has won eight of its nine three game non-conference weekend series with a 20-6 mark in that span.Â
➤ In his four years at the helm, Forbes has only faced a Big 12 opponent three times. He swept two games against West Virginia in last year's Super Regional and lost his only contest against the Red Raiders in the Lubbock Regional in 2021.
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