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2017 Louisville Cardinals baseball team

2017 Louisville Cardinals baseball
Louisville Cardinals text logo.svg
Conference Atlantic Coast Conference
2017 record 46–9 (23–6 ACC)
Head coach Dan McDonnell (11th year)
Assistant coach Roger Williams (11th year)
Assistant coach Eric Snider (3rd year)
Assistant coach Adam Vrable (3rd year)
Captain Jake Sparger (Senior year)
Captain Ryan Summers (Senior year)
Captain Logan Taylor (Senior year)
Home stadium Jim Patterson Stadium
Seasons
← 2016
2018 →
2017 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Atlantic
No. 5 Louisville x 23 6   .793     47 10   .825
No. 16 Wake Forest 19 11   .633     39 18   .684
No. 17 Clemson 17 13   .567     39 19   .672
NC State 16 14   .533     34 23   .596
No. 18 Florida State 14 14   .500     39 20   .661
Boston College 11 19   .367     25 28   .472
Notre Dame 10 20   .333     26 32   .448
Coastal
No. 4 North Carolina x 23 7   .767     47 12   .797
No. 11 Virginia 18 12   .600     42 14   .750
Miami (FL) 16 13   .552     31 27   .534
Duke 12 18   .400     30 28   .517
Georgia Tech 11 19   .367     27 28   .491
Pittsburgh 9 21   .300     23 30   .434
Virginia Tech 9 21   .300     23 32   .418
x – Division champion
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
As of May 30, 2017; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2017 Louisville Cardinals baseball team represents the University of Louisville during the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Cardinals play their home games at Jim Patterson Stadium as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They are led by head coach Dan McDonnell, in his eleventh year at Louisville. Following the conclusion of the regular season, the Cardinals were selected to host their fifth consecutive NCAA Regional.

In 2016, the Cardinals finished as champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference with a record of 46–10, 22–8 in conference play, in their second season in the conference. They qualified for the 2016 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, where they played in Division B of inter-conference tournament play. The Cardinals would finish 1-2 in the tournament, not advancing to the conference tournament finals.

With the Cardinals finishing the season as regular season champs of the Atlantic Division of the ACC, they would qualify for the 2016 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, and were selected as hosts of the Louisville regional and Louisville Super Regional, if they advanced to that round. The Cardinals would wins three straight matches in the Louisville Regional and would advance to the Super Regional (of which they were hosts) by defeating Western Michigan 6–1, Ohio State 15–3, and Wright State 3–1. In the Super Regional, Louisville hosted UC Santa Barbara in a best-of-three matchup. Louisville would lose the first two games to UC Santa Barbara, ending their playoff run.


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