I left the Virginia Tech Baseball team out of my write-up of ACC Baseball teams in NCAA Tournament contention, though Baseball America still had the Hokies among its “work to do” teams.
I’m not sure, with an average computer rating at 58.9, after Tech’s 6-1 loss to Clemson on Wednesday in the second round of the 2025 ACC Tournament, that I was necessarily off base in my analysis.
Virginia Tech (31-25) finished with a 13-19 record in ACC play, and was 8-15 overall and 4-13 in the ACC from April 12 on.
None of that – the average computer ranking, and the awful finish – is NCAA material.
Maybe the BA folks were giving Tech the benefit of the doubt in terms of the possibility that the Hokies might make a run in Durham this week.
Any notion there was out of the way early on Wednesday.
Clemson (42-15) answered a Ben Watson leadoff homer with three runs in the first inning and got a stellar outing from first-team All-ACC pitcher Aidan Knaak (9-1, 4.06 ERA, 1.09 WHIP), who held the Hokies to one run on four hits, walking one batter and striking out six, in six innings of work.
Virginia Tech starter Brett Renfrow (3-7, 3.89 ERA, 1.51 WHIP) took the loss. The sophomore allowed six runs on eight hits, with two walks and 10 strikeouts over 5.1 innings on the mound.
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