Funny enough, there’s a lot of news relating to our Illinois baseball program in the deep of the fall season. Let’s start here… The Big Ten has announced its 2025 conference schedule. The good guys will begin the season on March 7-9 at home against Michigan and will end it…
Illinois baseball has announced the schedule for the 2024 season. Take a look. It’s a RPI-inducing doozy too. With opponents such as Wake Forest, Tennessee, and Coastal Carolina, our squad will have plenty of chances to prove themselves worthy. Scott Beatty seems to agree. Important dates A few dates to…
Fighting Illini baseball announced the schedule for the 2023 season this week. Next season’s schedule consists of 48 games including 21 at home at Illinois Field. A few things of note… Season opener is February 17th at the Wake Forest Tournament Home opener is March 14th against Indiana State Big…
At Monday’s Orange and Blue series game, I overheard someone mention that the Illinois baseball 2022 schedule had not been announced yet. Well, it’s out now. Friday, Illinois baseball released the new schedule for the 2022 season. You can view it at the FightingIllini.com website. There are a few things…
On Friday, Illinois baseball will take the field competitively for the first time in almost a year. It was after the Elon game on March 8 when everything shut down for the 2020 season. But it’s a new year and a new modified 44-game schedule. Assuming everything goes to plan,…
Just last week, I was wondering last week when this year’s baseball schedule would be released. Sure enough, Coach Hartleb announced at an online press conference the state of the 2021 Illinois baseball season. The good news is that schedule has been finalized pending last minute changes and of course,…
Just a few days after the Fall 2019 schedule was released, Illinois baseball has announced the schedule for the 2020 season. In the fifteen years that I have been covering the team, this is the earliest I have seen the new season schedule released. Official announcement from FightingIllini.com Illinois’ season…
After a scheduling snafu, Illinois baseball split their opening doubleheader in St. Louis on Sunday. It wasn’t easy. The original weekend series in Beaumont, Texas hosted by Lamar University was cancelled due to flight cancellations. The Illinois baseball program re-scheduled with two new teams, South Dakota State and Austin Peay. …
This week, Illinois Baseball has announced its 2018 schedule. If you take a look at the schedule on FightingIllini.com, you’ll notice something a little different in the schedule layout. The interns at the baseball program have added a quick note about each game, The season starts on February 16 against…
Time was, the fall semester didn’t see much Illinois Baseball action outside of one intrasquad series. Sure, they held daily practice out on Illinois Field which culminated with the annual Orange and Blue World Series but that was about it. Seems that things are changing. This fall, in addition to…