The 2023 Clemson Tigers baseball team were the varsity
intercollegiate baseball team that represented
Clemson University during the
2023 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 2023 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, begins on February 17, 2023. The season will progress through the ...
. The Tigers competed in the
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ...
(ACC) and were led by first-year head coach
Erik Bakich. Clemson played its home games at
Doug Kingsmore Stadium in
Clemson, South Carolina.
The Tigers started the season sluggishly going 4–4 in February and losing their first three ACC Series. They were 17–14 overall and 2–8 in the ACC as of April 6, after the first game of their series against . The Tigers won their next two games in the series and their season turned around. The Tigers only lost three more games during the regular season, and finished 39–17 overall and 20–10 in ACC play to finish in second place in the Atlantic Division. They went into the
ACC tournament on a twelve game winning streak and were the third seed. The Tigers were placed in a pool with sixth seed and tenth seed
Virginia Tech. After going 2–0 in pool play, the Tigers defeated
North Carolina in the Semifinals and
Miami (FL) in the Final to win their eleventh
ACC tournament title. The Tigers earned the ACC's automatic bid to the
NCAA tournament and were selected as the fourth overall seed. They won the opening game of the regional against to extend their winning streak to seventeen games. Their streak ended there as they lost to
Tennessee in fourteen innings. The Tigers could not overcome
Charlotte in the elimination game of the regional and their season ended.
Previous season
The Tigers finished the
2022 season 35–23 overall and 13–16 in ACC Play, to finish in sixth place in the Atlantic Division. As the twelfth seed in the
ACC tournament they were placed in pool A with first seed
Virginia Tech and eight seed
North Carolina. They lost both games and were eliminated from the tournament. They were not invited to the
NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year. It was the first time the Tigers had missed the NCAA tournament in consecutive years since 1982-1986. It was their first time missing back-to-back tournaments since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1999. At the end of the season,
Monte Lee was fired as the head coach.
Personnel
Roster
Coaching Staff
Schedule
Note: All rankings shown are from D1Baseball Poll.
Rankings
References
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