The Louisville baseball team was selected as the 2016 ACC preseason favorite in a vote of the conference's 14 head coaches. The Cardinals were a unanimous selection as the team to beat in both the Atlantic Division and in the conference.
Louisville, which set an ACC record for conference wins in a single season in winning last year's Atlantic Division title with a 25-5 mark, tallied 98 points while Florida State was the second choice in the division with 74 points. NC State was third with 72 points and was followed by Notre Dame (50), Clemson (46), Wake Forest (35) and Boston College (17).