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…
I have so missed watching Illinois baseball! It won’t be long however, before we get a glimpse of the brand new 2024-25 version of the Illini team. They are scheduled to play two games next week. Illinois will face off against the Great Lakes Canadians on September 26 at 6pm.…
The MLB draft is now over. The annual draft which took place Sunday evening through Tuesday. It included 20 rounds plus a couple extra supplemental rounds. In all, 615 high school and college baseball players were picked by the thirty MLB organizations. Two of those players were from the Illinois…
The Lexington Regional is now complete and unfortunately, Illinois did not advance to the Super Regionals. They made a good showing of it making it to the semi-final game on Sunday but lost that game to Indiana State. Game 1: Illinois 4 Indiana 1 Ironically, Illinois won at the Lexington…
It’s crunch time for the Illini!
Illinois baseball is in Lexington Regional this weekend. At #3 seed, they are joined by #1 seed and host Kentucky, #2 seed Indiana State and #4 seed Western Michigan.
With the dramatic success of the Big Ten champion 2024 Illinois baseball team, there have been comparisons drawn to the last Illinois team that won a title in 2015.
With a convincing 18-10 win over Purdue on Sunday, Illinois baseball has claimed their first Big Ten championship since 2015! Though it was announced early in game that Illinois had clinched the championship due to Nebraska’s loss to Michigan State, they still sent a message to their future opponents in…
Saying it’s a close race going into the last weekend of the season is probably an understatement. Illinois will be facing one of its toughest challenge on the road as they vie for the Big Ten championship and a #1 seed in next week’s Big Ten Tournament.
It’s the last scheduled home series at Illinois Field. If you have been waiting for the right time to see this magical Illinois team, this is it. The Illini will be hosting rival Iowa Hawkeyes this weekend for three games.
Coming off of a disappointing weekend series loss against Maryland, Illinois may have felt they have had something to prove. Well, they did that and then some.
Every week, I tell you that it couldn’t get any more exciting for the Illinois baseball team. And the week later, they prove me wrong.
Coming off of a disappointing weekend series loss against Maryland, Illinois may have felt they have had something to prove. Well, they did that and then some.