The Florida State Baseball team is coming off an impressive series win against an extremely talented North Carolina State team. With the win on Friday the Noles locked up the #1 seed in the tournament and ensured a National seed. If Florida State can win two games in this tournament I think they have a good chance to be the #1 overall seed in the country and at worst I think they enter as the #4 National seed.

The ACC Tournament starts today and runs through Sunday and for those who are not familiar it is not your typical tournament style of play. The top 8 teams in the conference make the tournament and then are divided into 2 separate pools. Florida State has been paired with Clemson, Virginia and Georgia Tech in Pool A while the team with the best record advances to the finals on Sunday. For a complete bracket you can click here.

Inside we will preview each game and how the Seminoles matchup...

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Phil Steele released his All-ACC projection today. 20 Noles made at least one of his four teams, which leads the conference by 50% over Clemson (13). FSU came in second with five first-teamers (Clemson had six).

Some of these rankings make me believe that Phill doesn't watch much ACC football. And then some are pretty shrewd. Who knows? I do know that few are better nationally at nailing the 10,000 ft view.

Here are the big misses:

• Malliciah Goodman over Bjoern Werner, James Gayle, etc? Ridiculous. This screams lack of attention to detail on Steele's part. Goodman is a physical specimen, but his play is not close to matching his physique. Relying on a kid's recruiting ranking to project him on the first team in his senior year after three 'meh' campaigns is not smart.
• Ray-Ray Armstrong as a first-team safety? Not a chance. But hey, he has name recognition. Earl Wolf of N.C. State (3rd tm) is a much better choice.
• Jacob Fahrenkrug as the 2nd tm guard? There's a strong possibility he won't even start for Florida State after really struggling in his junior year.

And here are the ones with which I feel Steele did quite well.

• The first team ACC offense. I can argue some of these, but do not see any major omissions.
• The majority of the first team defense (Goodman and Armstrong excepted). I think Steele nailed 9 of the 12 he listed. I will give him a pass on Christian Jones, because while he may be the best linebacker in the league, it is very tough to tell without watching him specifically each game and snap.
• Clemson with the league's top two receivers.

What are your thoughts?