Don't forget about us

There are seven words ACC baseball is sick of. And no, they aren't those seven dirty words George Carlin talked about. You know, the heavy seven as he called them.

The seven: Duke lacrosse, North Carolina State basketball coach.

ACC baseball is having its best season, what, maybe ever. At least one of its best ever. And everyone is more concerned about ... well, just about everything.

The Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's most recent Top 20 includes seven ACC teams.

(Hey, isn't that interesting how we have seven teams and earlier I mentioned seven words. You have to love symmetry. My wife, the math teacher, just informed me that symmetry is not the correct word to describe what I am trying to describe, but I like the word symmetry, so I'm sticking with it.)

Even the other major polls have plenty of ACC flavor. The NCBWA poll has seven teams in the Top 29 and Baseball America has five in its Top 16. And in both of those polls Wake Forest just dropped out of the rankings. And Wake isn't even among those seven schools in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll, meaning the ACC has eight teams among the nation's elite. (The other four conference schools, simply put, stink).

So, here are the ACC Nation's Top Seven (remember, symmetry) reasons to watch ACC Baseball:

7. North Carolina is ranked No. 1 in a sport that has nothing to do with three-point shooting, trapping defenses or slam dunks.

6. There's no district attorney being quoted in any story involving ACC baseball teams.

5. Two words: Shane Robinson

4. "Game of Shadows" didn't mention any of the ACC baseball programs

3. Only eight teams qualify for the ACC baseball tournament, so the regular season actually means something.

2. Two more words: Andrew Miller

1. Did we mention seven teams in the Top 20?

- Patrick Hite