Miami begins the final weekend of the regular season 29-22 overall and 14-12 and in eighth place in the ACC. Notre Dame is at Miami for a three-game series that begins on Wednesday night to finish the regular season. Miami needs to remain in eighth place to secure a bye into the ACC Tournament second round.
Jonathan Wagner of On3 has Miami as the second seed in the Auburn Regional. Auburn is the projected second overall seed nationally. Michigan is the projected third seed at Auburn and Oral Roberts is fourth. Auburn would play Oral Roberts and Miami would match up against Michigan in the first round.
College Sports Madness also has Miami in the Auburn regional with the Tigers as the seventh national seed. High Point and Troy are the other projected teams in Auburn by College Sports Madness, which does not project seeds beyond the top 16 nationally.
Aria Gerson of The Tennessean projects Miami in the Athens, Georgia regional with the Bulldogs as the seventh national seed. Gerson has second-seeded Miami playing third seed Troy and Georgia against fourth-seeded Fairfield.
Michael Beutal of College Baseball Central projects Miami as the second seed in the Athens Regional, with Georgia as the fifth national seed. Beutal has Miami matched up with regional third seed Fairfield in their first game. Athens or Auburn appears to be the expected destination for Miami in the NCAA Tournament.
After this weekend, Miami will play in the ACC Tournament in Durham, North Carolina, that begins on Tuesday. Teams seeded nine through 16 will play in the first round on Tuesday. The fifth through ninth seeds receive a bye into the second round and the top four seeds have double-byes into the quarterfinals on Thursday.
The ACC baseball standings are tight entering the final weekend. Two games separate second through ninth place. Miami is 2.5 games behind second place North Carolina State and third place Georgia Tech. The Hurricanes own the tiebreaker over both with a 5-0 record against them this season.