RIP Legendary coach Richard C. “Itch” Jones
The Illinois baseball community received some sad news this week. Legendary college baseball coach “Itch” Jones passed away at the age of 87 on Monday.
Record crowd hears tales from Sean Casey at 2025 Hot Stove Banquet
Last Saturday, Illinois baseball fans packed the Illinois Conference Center for the 2025 Hot Stove Banquet. In a lot of ways, the Hot Stove Banquet has traditionally been the kickoff event for the Illinois baseball season.
Luevanos to take on coaching duties for Illinois
This week, Coach Hartleb announced that Zach Luevanos will join the Illinois baseball coaching staff for the 2025 season. Luevanos will take on pitching coach duties while Coach Allen is on a health-related leave.
Hard work and last year’s success nets a class of seven recruits for Illinois baseball
There’s no doubt that last year’s success of Illinois baseball has brought the team some favorable attention from potential recruits. This week, Illinois baseball announced the signing of seven recruits to the program.
Fall happenings in Illinois baseball
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…
Fall ball is nearing for the Illini!
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.…
Crowder, Janik chosen in the MLB draft
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…
Recap of Illinois baseball at Lexington Regional with photos
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…
Illinois is on its way to the Lexington Regional
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.
2015: the year Illinois won the Big Ten and went on to a Regional
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.