Miami (23-6, 10-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) comes into its next ACC series after cruising to a 17-1 victory against Florida International on Wednesday.
After a bittersweet run comes to an end for the Hurricanes, a difficult transition may be around the corner as the team will be in for some massive changes heading into next year.
The No. 17 Hurricanes (21-6, 10-2 ACC) swept the ranked North Carolina Tar Heels last weekend to begin their back-to-back conference sweeps for the first time in four years, and have now won eight games in a row.
There are only eight teams left in the NCAA Tournament and the Miami Hurricanes are one of them, despite being projected to finish 12th in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
An immense deal of expectation and excitement lies around Miami football as it closes its third week of spring practice. Multiple leftover storylines from last season have carried into the program’s offseason, given how the Hurricanes plan to reshape their defense and continue to establish more consistency on the offensive side.
While the sting of last weekend’s series loss to rival Florida still looms, the lights will once again illuminate at Mark Light Field as Miami baseball kicks off a three-game series against Boston College Friday at 7 p.m.
“First of all, we know it’s going to be a packed house, it should be a packed house, sold out crowds every game,” DiMare said. “It’s always a great rivalry playing those guys and it’s a great opportunity for our players early in the season to play a team that’s ranked higher than us … You want to make sure the guys are calm and they’re going to be juiced up. Everybody’s going to be jacked up in the fact that it’s [an in-state] rival and ranked teams, which there normally are. It’s a big series.”
Miami took down the Clemson Tigers in a blowout win on Sunday. The team enters the ACC Tournament as the No. 7 seed and is scheduled to play Duke or Pittsburgh Thursday at 6 p.m.