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Aidan Knaak and the Tigers look to notch a seventh home weekend series win this season.
Aidan Knaak and the Tigers look to notch a seventh home weekend series win this season.

No. 4 Tigers host BC in ACC regular-season finale series


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The No. 4 Tigers conclude the regular season with a three-game series against Boston College at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.

SERIES SETUP

• Who – Boston College (22-28, 8-19 ACC) vs. Clemson (37-13, 17-10 ACC)

• Best Ranking – BOC – No. NR; CU – No. 4 D1Baseball

• When – Thursday (6 p.m.), Friday (6 p.m.), Saturday (Noon)

• Where – Clemson, S.C. (Doug Kingsmore Stadium)

• Watch – ACC Network Extra (Thursday, Friday), ACC Network (Saturday)

• Video Announcers (Thursday) – William Qualkinbush, Ron Smith

• Video Announcers (Friday) – William Qualkinbush, Ron Smith

• Video Announcers (Saturday) – Devon Travis, Jonathan Yardley

• Listen (Radio) – Clemson Athletic Network (locally on WCCP (105.5 FM))

• Listen (Internet) – ClemsonTigers.com

• Live Stats – ClemsonTigers.com

• Social Media – ClemsonBaseball

• Tickets – ClemsonTigers.com, 1-800-CLEMSON

SERIES HISTORY

• Overall Record – Clemson leads 45-11 (2006-23)

• Record at Clemson – Clemson leads 22-5 (2007-22)

STARTING PITCHERS

• Thursday – RHP John West (BC: 1-4, 5.00 ERA) vs. LHP Ethan Darden (CU: 5-3, 4.24)

• Friday – LHP A.J. Colarusso (BC: 3-7, 7.04) vs. LHP Tristan Smith (CU: 2-0, 4.14)

• Saturday – TBA (BC) vs. RHP Aidan Knaak (CU: 4-1, 3.22)

CLEMSON OVERVIEW

• Clemson, which has a 24-6 home record, lost all three games at No. 12 Wake Forest last weekend.

• The Tigers are averaging 8.0 runs per game and hitting .293 with a .509 slugging percentage, .396 on-base percentage and 52 steals.

• The pitching staff has a 4.51 ERA, .240 opponents’ batting average and 2.29 strikeout-to-walk ratio, and Clemson is fielding .968.

BOSTON COLLEGE OVERVIEW

• Boston College, which has a 12-9 road record and is averaging 6.5 runs per game, is led by first-year Head Coach Todd Interdonato.

• The Eagles lost 4-3 at home to Georgetown on Tuesday. They are hitting .267 and have a 6.45 ERA and .980 fielding percentage.

• Kyle Wolff is hitting .314 with seven homers and 42 RBIs, Cameron Leary has 13 homers and 22 steals and Michael Farinelli has two saves.

QUICK HITS

• On Saturday at 11:30 a.m., Clemson will honor its senior players on Senior Day.

• Clemson has only allowed 24 steals in 37 attempts.

• Ten Tigers have had a double-digit on-base streak in 2024.

20 ACC REGULAR-SEASON WINS

• Clemson has a 17-10 ACC regular-season record in 2024, good for first place in the ACC Atlantic Division standings.

• Clemson had a 20-10 ACC regular-season record in 2023, its sixth season of totaling 20+ ACC regular-season wins, tied for third in the ACC.

• North Carolina (8) has the most ACC regular seasons of 20+ wins, while Florida State (7) is second and Miami (Fla.) (6) is tied for third.

• No ACC team has totaled 20+ ACC regular-season wins in back-to-back seasons during 30-game league schedules since 2017,18 (North Carolina).

• In 2021, ACC teams were scheduled to play 36 ACC regular-season games due to COVID-19, therefore figures above exclude that season.

• A total of 28 times has a head coach had an opportunity to total 20 ACC regular-season wins in his first year at an ACC school since 1992.

• The figures in the note above exclude head coaches who started at an ACC school in 2020 (shortened season).

• Only two have totaled 20+ ACC regular-season wins in his first year as a head coach at a school, Jack Leggett (1994) and Erik Bakich (2023).

• Jack Leggett (1994,95) is the only head coach to total 20+ ACC regular-season wins in each of his first two seasons at a school.

• The ACC regular-season schedule expanded to 24 games starting in the 1992 season.

• The ACC regular-season schedule expanded to 30 games starting in the 2005 season.

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