It looked like IU was going to be headed back to Bloomington after only 2 games in the double elimination Big Ten baseball tournament. Trailing 5-2 in the bottom of the 9th against Michigan State, the Hoosier bats finally woke up. Scotty Bradley singled and Jeremy Houston was hit by a pitch to start the bottom of the 9th. Michigan State got two outs against the next two batters and appeared to be on their way to the next round. That’s when Matt Gorski hit a two-out 3-run home run in the bottom of the ninth to force the game…
Author: Mike Schumann
Indiana baseball lost its Big Ten opener to Illinois 7-1 on Wednesday night. The Hoosiers will face Michigan State in an elimination game on Thursday. That game will be played at 2PM EST / 1 CT at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha. IU struggled the entire game against the Illinois pitching staff, gathering just 2 hits on the night. Starter Quinn Snarskis held the Hoosiers in check for 5 and 1/3, and then the Illini bullpen took care of the rest. Hoosier starter Jonathan Stiever was solid through 5 innings before IU’s old nemesis — fielding errors — resurfaced and…
Indiana University has released a statement on the latest Academic Progress Report released by the NCAA: BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom, according to the latest NCAA Academic Progress Report (APR) data released today. Nine Indiana programs earned perfect 1,000 APR scores for the 2016-17 academic year while three teams earned perfect multi-year scores (2013-14 through 2016-17). The nine IU programs earning a perfect APR score for 2016-17 academic year are field hockey, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s golf, women’s golf, softball, women’s swimming and diving, women’s tennis and volleyball. The three IU…
They are right. These rankings are way too early. We shouldn’t even acknowledge them. But when national folks are clearly just taking last year’s rankings and layering on some quick notes about recruits and transfers, well, we can stay silent no more! CBS Sports is the latest to take a shot at a so-called “way too early” men’s college basketball Top 25. NBC had something similar a couple days ago. IU was not included in either set of rankings. The main problem with even attempting rankings at this point is that there are so many question marks related to the NBA…
Post-season baseball is here as the Big Ten Tournament begins on Wednesday. No. 5 seed Indiana will face No. 4 seed Illinois at 10:00 PM EST / 9:00 PM CT in Omaha, Nebraska. All of the Big Ten Tournament games will air on BTN. Illinois is starting right-hander Quinn Snarskis. He is 6-1 with a 3.06 ERA. IU is starting right-hander Jonathan Stiever. He is 5-4 with a 3.04 ERA. Both starting pitchers had strong outings when the teams faced each other in late April in Bloomington. Indiana won the regular season series with the Illini 2-1. You can see…
For more than 100 years, the history of the jersey number zero at Indiana was just that — zero, nothing, no one, zilch, nada. It is somewhat surprising to learn that no one had ever worn the jersey number zero at Indiana since the program started in 1901 until a walk-on made the leap in 2009. Today we take a fun look back at the very brief history of the jersey number zero at IU in light of the suggestion on social media that class of 2018 five-star recruit Romeo Langford will sport that number next season. KORY BARNETT -…
– UPDATED May 20, 2018 – As of May 20, 2018, the following Indiana University Athletics programs were nationally ranked in the Top 25, either currently, at the end, or in the preseason of their respective seasons: BASEBALL – #19 The Hoosiers slipped out of most polls after losing 9 of 11. They are now back on a 6 game win streak and are likely to start moving back into the rankings heading into the Big Ten Tournament. MEN’S SOCCER – #2 (end of season) Indiana made it to the 2017 national championship match and lost a heartbreaker. MEN’S SWIMMING…
Remember all that talk about a 5 game losing streak, and what is wrong with Indiana baseball? That was so last week. On its Senior Night, the Hoosiers finished off a 3-game sweep of Maryland, winning 13-3 at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington. IU won its sixth in a row overall to wrap-up the regular season. Indiana heads to post season play at 37-15 overall, and 14-9 in the Big Ten. IU is firmly in the eight-team Big Ten Tournament that starts next week. The Hoosiers will finish 5th overall in the regular season conference standings. While Maryland put up…
If you ask just about anyone who they think is the most likely in the class of 2019 to attend Indiana, their response is Greenwood, Indiana native Trayce Jackson-Davis. The 6-foot-9 power forward is rated as a 5-star recruit based on the 247 Sports composite, and he is the 20th best player in the country according to that service. The 5-star rating reflects a significant move up the charts for Jackson-Davis, as he has made big strides over the last few years. As a freshman he used his size to primarily be a presence with rebounding and defense. Since then…
Catcher Josh Phegley has had some bad luck in recent years with injuries. The former Indiana catcher has only appeared in 82 games over the last two seasons for the Oakland A’s. That lack of availability might be part of the reason why the A’s went a different route this spring and Phegley ended up with Oakland’s Triple A affiliate in Nashville. While it probably wasn’t the path back to the majors that he was expecting or seeking, Phegley was called up by Oakland on Thursday and joined the A’s in Toronto for a four game series. Oakland placed catcher Bruce…