This Friday is Opening Day! The Illini will take on Georgetown at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Last year’s team was young, no doubt about it. With one more year under their belt, they have a year’s worth of experience and the team is better off for it. While…
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…
Illinois’ weekend was almost like the name “Ohio”. Illinois high point was in the middle but there wasn’t much on the edges. Last weekend, there great weather and lots of fans at Illinois Field. There was even free food and a beer tent on Friday night. Unfortunately, things didn’t…
Illinois’ first encounter with the Grand Canyon Lopes this past weekend probably didn’t go as hoped. The offense was down (on both sides) and when it was over, GCU (22-17) took two games of the three game set. Fortunately for Illinois the non-conference series doesn’t affect their Big Ten standing. …
Coming off a 2-1 weekend against Maryland and a midweek win versus Illinois State, Illinois baseball (20-8, 6-3 Big Ten) invites the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (18-11, 4-2 Big Ten) to the Midwest for a three-game series. This is a key series for both teams as Illinois is right above Rutgers…
While Bren Spillane racked up his third straight Big Ten Player of the Week award as well as the Perfect Game Midseason Player of the Year honor, Illinois (17-7, 4-2 Big Ten) hopes to regroup after a disappointing 1-2 weekend against Iowa. This coming weekend, they will play the Maryland…
You can throw out the 12-5 record now. On the eve of conference season, it gets real tomorrow. This weekend, the Big Ten baseball season begins and Illinois travels to Evanston to take on their in-state rivals, the Northwestern Wildcats. While Illinois is listed in second place behind Indiana (15-4),…
For the third weekend in a row, Illinois reaped the benefits of Big Ten Player of Week performance. With that help, they won two of three from the rival Southern Illinois Salukis at Itchy Jones Stadium. It was firstbaseman Bren Spillane who hit the cover off the ball, collecting…
Illinois baseball has gotten a lot of attention this past week after their 3-0 performance at the DQ Classic. This weekend, they will play three games against two teams to bolster their 6-3 record and perhaps knock on the doors of a few more polls. In Greenville, South Carolina,…
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…