Pitt baseball’s run through the ACC Tournament ended Saturday with a semifinals defeat to No. 2 North Carolina at Truist Field in Charlotte, N.C.

The No. 14 seed Panthers lost to the second-seeded Tar Heels, 13-5, falling a win short of the championship game.

Pitt (33-24, 11-19 ACC) had won three games in a row to advance to the semifinals, dispatching No. 11 Louisville, No. 6 Wake Forest and No. 3 Florida State to set up Saturday’s showdown with North Carolina.

Now, the Panthers will hope their late-season surge is enough to propel them into the NCAA Tournament. The 64-team field will be revealed on ESPN2 at noon Monday.

Pitt has three NCAA Tournament appearances in program history, most recently in 1995.

On Friday, D1 Baseball released its latest projections for the 64-team field, and Pitt was squarely on the bubble, ranked just outside the field at No. 70 as a team to watch, with conference tournaments across the country continuing.

The Panthers took down Florida State, the No. 11 team in the nation, in the most dramatic fashion Friday in the quarterfinals.

Trailing by a run in the top of the ninth, with two men on, Kai Wagner crushed a 1-2 pitch for a three-run homer. Pitt protected its 8-6 lead in the bottom of the ninth, stunning the Seminoles.

Other season highlights for a Pitt team that has won the most games in coach Mike Bell’s tenure (since 2019) include a three-game sweep of No. 10 Virginia from April 24-26 and a 23-1 dismantling of No. 12 West Virginia on April 21 in Morgantown.