STANDINGS (as of May 19, 2002)

                      ACC            Overall


Team             W   L   T   Pct   W   L   T   Pct


Florida State.. 18   6   0  .750  51  12   0  .810


Wake Forest.... 17   6   0  .739  42   9   1  .817


North Carolina. 17   7   0  .708  39  17   0  .696


Clemson........ 16   8   0  .667  44  12   0  .786


Georgia Tech... 14   9   0  .609  44  12   0  .786


Virginia.......  8  16   0  .333  25  30   0  .455


NC State.......  7  17   0  .292  32  24   0  .571


Maryland.......  6  18   0  .250  34  22   0  .607


Duke...........  4  20   0  .167  23  32   0  .418

Clemson vs. Georgia Tech

       

Number-four seeded Clemson (44-12) will play #5 seed Georgia

Tech (44-12) Wednesday, May 22 at Saint Petersburg, FL in the first

round of the ACC Tournament.  Game time is 10:00 AM for the game

at Al Lang Field and Florida Power Park.  Clemson will be the

home team.  The winner of the game will move on to play Thursday

at 5:00 PM againt the winner of the Florida State-"play-in game"

winner.  The two losers will play Thursday at 10:00 AM.  All

of Clemson's ACC Tournament games will be broadcast on the radio by

Clemson Tiger Sports Properties and can be heard live via the internet

at www.clemsontigers.com.  Live stats will also be available on

Clemson's website.

The Series

        Georgia

Tech won two of three games over Clemson from May 4-6 in Atlanta, GA

to tie the all-time series 83-83-3 dating back to 1902.  Clemson

won the series opener 12-9, while the Yellow Jackets won games two and

three 15-6 and 11-0, respectively.  Head Coach Jack Leggett is

18-14 against Georgia Tech as the Tiger skipper, including a 3-3

record in ACC Tournament play.

     Clemson is 10-7 against

Georgia Tech in the ACC Tournament.  The Yellow Jackets, however,

have a three-game winning streak against Clemson in the tourney,

including wins of 8-4 and 9-8 in the 2000 tournament at Fort Mill,

SC.  Prior to the Georgia Tech's three-game streak, Clemson had

won eight in a row over the Yellow Jackets in ACC Tournament play.

The Starting Pitchers

        Neither

team has determined a starter for Wednesday's game.  Georgia

Tech has a 4.13 team ERA and 2.93 team strikeout-to-walk ratio. 

Clemson sports a 4.06 team ERA and .257 opponents' batting

average.

Georgia Tech Overview

        Georgia

Tech, led by ninth-year Head Coach Danny Hall, is coming off two wins

in three games against North Carolina in Atlanta, GA.  The 2000

ACC Tournament Champions are hitting .332 this year, led by Victor

Menocal's .382 batting average.  Eric Patterson, a leading

candidate for ACC Rookie-of-the-Year, is hitting .373 with a .464

on-base percentage and 33 stolen bases.  Georgia Tech has 113

steals as a team, including eight players with at least seven steals. 

Freshman Jeremy Slayden is hitting .349 with 16 homers and 53 RBIs as

well.  Georgia Tech has a .960 team fielding percentage.

Clemson Overview

        Clemson

enters the ACC Tournament after a three-game sweep to the hands of #2

Florida State at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.  The Tigers, who are

hitting .328, are led by Khalil Greene, who is hitting .476 with 21

homers and 73 RBIs.  Greene needs just four hits to move into

second place in NCAA history for hits.  Greene is also riding a

22-game hitting streak, tied for fourth-longest in Clemson history. 

Jeff Baker is hitting .332 with 21 homers and 70 RBIs, as he has 55

career long balls in under three seasons.  The Tigers have a .971

fielding percentage, best ever in school history.

Clemson's ACC Tournament History

        Clemson

has won eight ACC Tournaments in history, more than any other school. 

This is the 29th ACC Baseball Tournament and Clemson has been to the

finals in 19 of the previous 28 tournaments, 10 more  than any

other school.  Clemson has an 84-43 record in ACC Tournament

games.  The 84 wins are 21 more than any other school.  The

Tigers also have the most first-team All-ACC Tournament players with

38, eight more than N.C. State.

        While

Clemson has had unique success in the ACC Tournament, the Tigers will

be looking for their first championship since 1994.  That was

Jack Leggett's first year as Clemson's head coach.  Clemson

defeated Florida State 4-1 in the championship game held in Greenville

Municipal Stadium.

Leggett has been on the field to accept the

championship trophy twice, however.  In 1993, then Head Coach

Bill Wilhelm was suspended for the  championship game. 

Leggett, then the top assistant for the Tigers, was in charge for that

1993 championship game, an 11-7 win over N.C. State.  Clemson's

eight tournament titles came in 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1991,

1993, and 1994.  Wilhelm is credited with the first seven

tournament championships.

        Clemson

has been a consistent team in tournament play.  The Tigers have

won at least two tournament games in 26 of their previous 28

appearances.  The only years Clemson did not win at least two

games were 1998 (0-2) and 2001 (1-2).  While Clemson has not won

the title since 1994, Clemson has been to the championship round four

of the last six years.

        Only nine

times in the 28-year history has a #1 seed won the tournament. 

Clemson has done it five times, while Georgia Tech, and North Carolina

have done it twice each.  Clemson last won the tournament as the

#1 seed in 1994, the last time Clemson won the tournament.

    The Tigers have won the ACC

Tournament with a perfect record five times.  Clemson was 3-0 in

1976 and 1978 in winning both events at Clemson, then had a 4-0 record

in winning the title in Raleigh in 1980.  Clemson's only other

perfect run through the tournament came in 1991, when a Clemson team

that won a record 60 games had a 5-0 mark in the ACC Tournament held

in Greenville, SC.

This will be the second time the tournament has been

held in Saint Pete.  Clemson had a 3-2 record in that '97

tournament and reached the championship round before losing to Florida

State, 10-0. 

     Clemson has a winning record

against every other ACC team in tournament play with the exception of

Florida State.  Clemson is 7-8 against the Seminoles in the

event.  The Tigers are 8-2 against Duke, 10-7 versus Georgia

Tech, 12-0 versus Maryland, 14-9 against North Carolina, 13-9 against

N.C. State, 10-4 versus Virginia and 10-4 versus Wake Forest. 

That computes to an 84-43 record and a .661 winning percentage. 

Only Florida State (.673) has a better winning percentage than Clemson

in ACC Tournament play.

        Clemson was

the dominant team when the ACC Tournament was played in Greenville

from 1987-95.  In those nine tournaments, Clemson posted a 36-12

record, won the event four times, and finished second on two other

occasions.  Clemson won at least three games in eight of the nine

tournaments held in Greenville.

    The success was reflected in the

attendance.  Each of the top eight ACC tournament crowds in

history were held in Greenville, including the record 43,675 that

attended the 1992 event.  The last time the tournament was held

in Saint Petersburg, FL, 32,141 attended, the largest attendance for

the tournament since it left Greenville in 1996.

    The ACC Tournament began in 1973 and

has been held every year but one since then.  In 1979, Clemson

won the regular-season title and was declared conference champion. 

The tournament was not held because of a scheduling conflict between

school exam schedules and the tournament.  Clemson has been the

declared conference champion 13 times in its history, more than any

other school.

  Clemson will enter the ACC tournament as the #4

seed this year.  The Tigers have won the tournament without being

a top three seed just once.  That came in 1993, Bill Wilhelm's

final season, when the Tigers were 11-11 in the regular season and

seeded fifth in the tournament.

Clemson's ACC Tourney Championships Years

Year        

Seed    

W-L     

ACC      Total   

Site

1976        

1       

3-0     

10-2     36-15   

Clemson

1978     

1       

3-0     

10-2     39-14   

Clemson

1980     

3       

4-0     

6-5      38-21   

Raleigh

1981     

1       

5-1     

10-4     34-24   

Chapel Hill

1989 2       

5-0     

13-5     50-20   

Greenville

1991   1       

5-0     

18-3     60-10   

Greenville

1993   5       

5-1      11-11   

45-20    Greenville

1994   1       

4-1     

20-4     57-18   

Greenville

     

       

ACC Tournament Records

Rk        

School   W-L     

Pct.

1.   Florida State   

35-17    .673

2.   Clemson 84-43   

.661

3.   Georgia Tech    

46-35    .568

4.   N.C. State      

63-50    .558

5.   North Carolina  

54-46    .540

6.   Wake Forest     

39-48    .448

7.  

Virginia        

30-50    .375

8.   Duke    

16-46    .258

9.  

Maryland        

15-47    .242

ACC Tournament Championships

1.       Clemson

8

2.      Georgia

Tech     5

3.      North Carolina  

4

       N.C.

State       4

       Wake

Forest      4

6.      Florida State   

2

7.     

Virginia        

1

8.      Duke    

0

      

Maryland        

0

ACC Tournament Championship Round Appearances

1.        

Clemson 19

2.     N.C.

State       9

3.      North Carolina  

8

4.      Georgia

Tech     7

5.      Florida State   

5

       Wake

Forest      5

7.     

Virginia        

2

8.     

Maryland        

1

9.      Duke    

0

First-Team All-ACC Tournament Selections

1.      Clemson

38

2.     N.C.

State       30

3.     Florida State   

26

4.     Georgia Tech    

23

5.     Wake

Forest      20

6.       North

Carolina   16

7.    

Virginia        

12

8.     Duke    

3

9.     

Maryland        

0

NCAA Regional Information

        The

pairings, brackets, and site selection for the 64-team field will be

announced on espn2 on Monday, May 27 at 12:30 PM EDT.  In

previous years, the sites have been announced the week before the

pairings, but that is not the case this year.  The pairings and

sites will be announced at the same time.

  Clemson has played host to an NCAA Regional

Tournament eight times in its history, including  six of the last

eight seasons.  The Tigers have a 24-6 record in home NCAA

Tournament Regionals, including a 17-2 record in home NCAA Tournament

games since 1995.  Clemson's only home losses in NCAA

Tournament games since 1995 came in 1998, a 2-1 loss to South Alabama

in 16 innings, and an 8-5 loss to eventual NCAA Champion Southern

California.

        The Clemson

Athletic Department has established ticket prices for the Sub-Regional

and Super Regional tournaments if the Tigers are selected as a host

site.  Call the ticket office at 1-800-CLEMSON for further

information.

Sub-Regional

All-Tournament Pass    $60

Reserved Game Seat    $10

General Admission Game Seat   $7

Super Regional

All-Tournament Pass      $30

Reserved Game Seat    $10

General Admission Game Seat   $7

NCAA Tourney Announcements & Games Timeline

Date       

Time     Announcement

5-27        

12:30    Televised (espn2) selection

show to announce teams, sites, pairings

5-31-2       

        NCAA

Regional Tournaments

6-3     3:00    

Super Regional site selection press conference

6-7-9     

       

Super Regional Tournaments

6-10   3:00     Press

conference to announce first-round pairings for College World

Series

6-14          

College World Series Begins

6-22 1:30     Championship

game of College World Series

Note:  All times PM & EDT

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