Three! 3! III! No matter how you say it, it looks great! Illinois baseball has been ranked #3 by Collegiate Baseball. That’s a jump from a #8 ranking from CB from last week. It goes without saying it’s the highest ranking Illinois baseball has received in school history (though that’s…
Everyone’s on board. After a 4-0 week, all major polls have ranked Illinois baseball in the single digits. In fact, the Illini are ranked no lower than #8 and Perfect Game has them as high as #6. Of note, they also have a photo of Illini starter Kevin Duchene headlining…
Illinois baseball has cracked the top ten! After another successful week on the diamond, Illinois has gone up in the polls, reaching as high as #8 in the USA Today Coaches Poll and #9 in the D1Baseball and Baseball America polls. The Illini went 4-0 in the past week. That…
There is still one more game left in the Illinois-Purdue series but the national polls wait for no one. Fortunately for the Illini, direction is still up. They are ranked as high as #11 by D1Baseball up one spot from last week. That’s as high as Illinois has been ranked…
After a 5-0 week and a sweep against the Northwestern Wildcats, Illinois baseball (24-6-1) has risen in the national polls. D1baseball once again places the Illini the highest at #12. Here is the full list of polls and where Illinois is placed: National Poll Illinois’ Ranking Previous Ranking NCBWA…
John Kravetz improves to a career 21-7 record It was wild, wooly game up in East Lansing today. After getting off to a 7-0 lead, Illinois sustained a Spartan rally and prevailed in the last game against Michigan State, 13-9. John Kravetz came out the winner and is now 2-0…
After a grueling 2-1 series win against the University of South Florida Bulls team plus a midweek win versus Lindenwood-Belleville, the Fighting Illini (17-5-1) find themselves slowly moving up in the polls… again. In three of the five major national polls, they moved up. Baseball America kept them at #25…
Well, check this out. The pollsters have seen to look beyond the loss to 2-12 SIU on Friday and focus on the fact that they have won every other game in the past week. Some of the fans I talked to wondered if Friday’s 2-0 loss would affect Illinois’ ranking. …
After a series win against a nationally ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys team last weekend, the Fighting Illini are reaping their rewards today. That being in the form of a significant jump in many of the national polls out there. Here is a sample of the polling: National Poll Illinois’…
Boy, there’s a lot to cover after a 4-0 sweep in which the Illini dominated as they did. They are of course, tops in the Big Ten after the first weekend though Maryland and Ohio State did put in a 3-0 series. The other new guy on the block, Rutgers…