February 14th is Valentine’s Day. What better way to spend it with your loved one than to follow your favorite baseball team during their season opener? This weekend, Illinois will be taking on Milwaukee, Seton Hall and Wake Forest. It’s been a long off-season and we’re all ready for some…
Illinois took on ranked Indiana this past weekend and with two great pitching performances by Andy Fisher and Ty Weber, they find themselves back in the thick of things. Illinois won two of three games, keeping the Hoosiers to just one run for the first two games. As a result…
Today, it was announced that Illinois baseball was picked as the third best team in the Big Ten by conference coaches bested only by Minnesota and Michigan. From FightingIllini.com, here is how the top teams fared in the coaches poll: 2019 Big Ten Preseason Poll (top six teams and ties)1.…
It’s exciting to see college baseball news ramping up. It’s even more exciting to see Illinois baseball making the headlines. Illinois fans knew that we had had good team going into the 2019 season. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper agrees. They released their preseason Top 40 rankings yesterday and the Illini are…
Today, Bren Spillane was named Big Ten Player of Week for the second week in a row. It is the fourth week in a row that an Illini has been named B1G Player of the Week. March 6th: Michael Massey, Jr. March 12th: Doran Turchin, Jr. March 19th: Bren Spillane,…
A week ago, Illinois baseball was playing .500 ball and waiting to make their move. Well, a lot has happened in the last week. Now, they are making big news! The Illini, now 6-3, swept the DQ Classic in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Not only did they go 3-0 for the…
It’s a few days past Valentine’s Day and now we’re talking Opening Day? It’s hard to believe. It really snuck up on me. But boy, I am so glad that baseball season is finally here! The Illinois baseball team are on their way to Beaumont, Texas to take part in…
Senior infielder Adam Walton will be a key player for Illinois in 2016 With one more month before the college baseball season starts, more and more pundits and pollsters are weighing in on the 2016 campaign. Previews, pre-season polls and updates are crossing my news feed. The fact that everyone…
Now the regular season is over and the postseason can begin. That begins with the Big Ten Baseball Tournament at Target Field in Minneapolis. As usual, the polls come out on Monday. With a two-game sweep of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Big Ten Champs Illinois (45-6-1) can only improve. The higher…
With its sixth straight Big Ten sweep and 24 wins in a row, Illinois stakes its claim one of best teams in the country. They are ranked in the top 5 in all of the major polls. They are ranked as high as #2 by Collegiate Baseball and #3 by…