Instead, the regular season winner Clemson was given the conference's automatic bid to the 1979 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

From TheACC.com Archived 2012-11-11 at the Wayback Machine: On Saturday (The Semifinals) of the ACC Baseball Tournament, the match-up between the four remaining teams is determined by previous opponents.

With the introduction of Florida State into the ACC to bring the total teams to nine, the baseball tournament added a Play-In game where the bottom two teams in the conference regular season standings played in a winner-takes-all game for the 8th spot in the regular tournament.

The bottom four teams in conference play faced off in a single-elimination bracket, with the winner earning the #8 spot in the tournament.

This new format was a two-group, four-team round robin tournament with the winner of each grouping playing in a winner-take-all championship game.

On July 6, 2009, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced a decision to move three future baseball tournaments out of Myrtle Beach, citing miscommunications with the NAACP concerning the display of the Confederate flag in South Carolina.

(Charlotte was included in the NAACP Boycott because Knights Stadium was in York County, South Carolina, less than five kilometers from the state line.)

[6] The four winners of pool play then advance to a four team, single-elimination bracket to determine the conference champion.