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The Atlantic Coast Conference long has been considered a basketball conference, based on the league's perennially high power rating in that sport and the fact that each of the Triangle teams (North Carolina, Duke, N.C. State) has won at least two national basketball championships.

Well, perhaps now the ACC should be considered a baseball league. For the second time in three years, at least three league teams will be competing in the eight-team College World Series.

UNC, Florida State and Miami will represent the ACC in Omaha, Neb., beginning next weekend. No other league in the country has three teams in the double-elimination event.

In 2006, the ACC had four teams in the CWS, including Carolina -- which has advanced to the College World Series for three years in a row. The Tar Heels finished as runners-up in 2006 and 2007.

The N.C. State Wolfpack nearly gave the ACC four teams in the CWS this year. The Wolfpack fell one victory short, losing to Georgia in the best-of-three Super Regionals in Athens, Ga.

UNC will become only the second team in ACC history to participate in the CWS three straight seasons. Florida State did it twice, 1994-1996 and 1998-2000.

Carolina, Miami and FSU are among the top four seeds in the national tournament. Expectations are that one of those teams will give the ACC its first NCAA baseball championship in more than 50 years. Between them, they have posted a combined record of 157-33 (Miami 52-9, UNC 51-12, FSU 54-12).

Unless they have to play each other, the teams should do well in Omaha -- Half of the Seminoles' losses this season came against ACC competition, while Miami lost five ACC games, and Carolina lost seven ACC games. FSU split four games against UNC and lost two of three to Miami, while UNC was 2-1 against the Hurricanes.

Hendrick Durham Auto Mall would like to wish all the teams well as they look to represent the league well and give ACC fans much more to talk about this summer than the next basketball season.

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