Your 2021 ACC baseball champions, the Duke Blue Devils.
Talk about re-framing the narrative.
The ACC has 15 teams. Fourteen play baseball; Syracuse is the outlier. Only the top 12 make the ACC. The two worst teams stay home.
Just a few weeks ago it looked like Duke might be one of those two teams. Following a 15-6 loss to Louisville, the Devils were 10-17 in the ACC, on the outside looking in.
Lots of things were going wrong at that point but pitching was atop the list. Duke was on the short end of losses by scores like 10-6, 11-5, 21-8, 11-0 and 15-6.