Just past the midway point of the regular season, the North Carolina baseball team finds itself where it expected to be, sitting atop the ACC Coastal Division standings.
But the Tar Heels' path to this point hasn't exactly been smooth.
A consensus preseason top-10 team, UNC opened the season 12-1. Then, in its first ACC series, Carolina was swept at Clemson, despite entering the bottom of the ninth inning with the lead in two of the three games.
The Tar Heels have since been trying to rebound from that, a task that became more arduous when they lost their series openers against Miami and Virginia Tech.