Louisville baseball voted preseason ACC favorite

The Louisville baseball team, which has been picked No. 1 or No. 2 in each preseason top 25 poll released this winter, has now been voted as the preseason favorite to win the ACC.

The Cards received 13 out of a possible 14 first-place votes to win the Atlantic Division, and were also voted by the league’s coaches as the preseason favorite to win the entire conference.

Louisville has won the Atlantic Division in four of its five seasons as a member of the ACC.

Here’s the full preseason poll:

2020 ACC BASEBALL PRESEASON COACHES POLL

Overall Champion

Louisville

Atlantic Division

1. Louisville (13) – 97

2. Florida State – 79

3. NC State – 68

t4. Clemson (1) – 52

t4. Wake Forest – 52

6. Boston College – 27

7. Notre Dame – 17

Coastal Division

1. Miami (12) – 93

2. North Carolina (1) – 68

3. Georgia Tech (1) – 66

4. Duke – 65

5. Virginia – 55

6. Virginia Tech – 27

7. Pitt – 18