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North Carolina head baseball coach Scott Forbes, with UNC memorabilia and displays as his backdrop, stood in the program\u2019s Hall of Honor at Boshamer Stadium on Wednesday before the team left for Omaha, Nebraska and the Men\u2019s College World Series.<\/p>\n

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His first comment was not about the team\u2019s trip, nor was it about the ninth-inning comeback in Game 3 of the Super Regional. It was about the air conditioning.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeels good in here,\u201d Forbes said. \u201cThank you for doing [the press conference] in here. It\u2019s smoking outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chapel Hill was 80 degrees and sunny with 71% humidity during the team\u2019s sendoff. Weather in Omaha is expected to feel similar.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a privilege, however, for teams to feel the sticky heat this time of year. This is what they sacrifice for, what they dream about \u2014 a chance to play for the title.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a unique business trip. A lot of times on business trips, you may not exactly love where you\u2019re going to be, but we\u2019re going to love where we are,\u201d Forbes said. \u201cBut we also know what we\u2019re going out there for. The better you play, the more you win, the longer you get to enjoy where you\u2019re going to be. We\u2019re going out there to try to win, try to win a national championship.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels begin their title chase at 7 p.m. Friday when they face a scrappy Ole Miss team that went on the road to sweep the Lincoln Regional and Auburn Super Regional. The Rebels, who are making their seventh trip to Omaha, were one of three unseeded teams to make the MCWS.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels swept the Chapel Hill regional<\/a> before a nerve-wracking Super Regional. UNC led Southern Cal 5-1 after five innings in Game 1 but fell to the Trojans<\/a> after a sixth-inning grand slam allowed USC to take the lead. Jason DeCaro\u2019s complete performance in Game 2<\/a> propelled the Heels to a 4-0 win, forcing the rubber match.<\/p>\n

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UNC, trailing by a run in the bottom of the ninth, tied the game on a sacrifice fly before a walk-off RBI double pushed Carolina to a 4-3 win<\/a> \u2014 and into Omaha, where it wants to end every season.<\/p>\n

Carolina (50-12-1) is making its second trip to Omaha under Forbes, with both trips in the last three seasons. The team has two additional wins and the same ACC record (22-8) as the 2024 team.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy brain thinks when you say we\u2019ve been to Omaha the last two out of three years, we should have went the last three out of three,\u201d Forbes said, referring to the 2025 Super Regional loss to Arizona<\/a>. \u201cBut, it doesn\u2019t surprise me with this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The No. 5 Tar Heels are the second-highest seed still remaining in the tournament after UCLA, Georgia Tech and Auburn failed to make the final eight and has, arguably, the favorable path to the championship series. Unseeded Troy and No. 16 West Virginia are the other two opponents in its side of the bracket, while No. 3 Georgia, No. 6 Texas, No. 7 Alabama and unseeded Oklahoma are on the other.<\/p>\n

This is UNC\u2019s ninth trip to Omaha in the past 20 years, since Forbes re-joined the staff in 2006. (He was an assistant from 1999 to 2002.) The program ties Florida for the most appearances in the past two decades, but the Tar Heels have never won it all.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels were College World Series runners-up in 2006 and 2007, falling to Oregon State both seasons, and have not been in that position since. They desperately want that to change and believe it\u2019s possible to take the next step. So do their supporters who weathered the toasty conditions and cheered as UNC\u2019s bus left the Bosh.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year we just started with the Skip Bertman (legendary LSU baseball coach) saying, \u2018Anything you vividly imagine, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must come to pass,\u2019\u201d Forbes said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s always going to, but you have to believe it\u2019s going to, number one, and then you got to go to work and try to make it happen. That\u2019s all we\u2019ve talked about \u2014 winning the national championship, and nothing else.\u201d<\/p>\n

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