Baseball update.
by John M (The Crimson Quarry) on Mar 23, 2009 3:00 PM EDT
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PrintBefore the season, IU, as noted in this interview with head coach Tracy Smith and in this preview from the excellent College Baseball Blog, was expected to contend for a Big Ten championship. IU hasn't won the regular season Big Ten title since 1949 and hasn't reached the NCAA Tournament since its surprising Big Ten Tournament title in 1996. Unfortunately, the Hoosiers, who begin the Big Ten season at the end of this week, have limped to a 7-13 start. Star catcher Josh Phegley, a junior catcher who finished second in the NCAA with a .438 batting average last year, has been up to par. Star junior pitcher Matt Bashore, all-Big Ten last year, has struggled to an 0-3 record and 7.23 ERA. Bashore's underlying numbers seem pretty solid: in 27.1 innings, Bashore has 29 strikeouts and only 13 walks, and has allowed only one home run. For whatever reason, and I haven't seem him pitch this year, he has given up 39 hits. Perhaps it's just an unlucky streak and he and the Hoosier will right the ship during the Big Ten season.
UPDATE: Here's a nice IU baseball blog with lots more detail than I have provided.
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Good post
A lot more people are talking about Big Ten baseball now. Porbably because it giveseveryone more content after basketball seaon, plus the conference is making a push to get better as a whole. Right now we seriously lag behind all the other BCS conferences except maybe the Big East. this year looks to be different though.
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The BTN helps as well. I’m not sure that I had ever seen an IU baseball game on TV before last year. It’s much more fun to write about a team that I can see occasionally. The next step in IU’s facilities plan is a new baseball stadium, which is sorely needed. It’s pretty remarkable that Tracy Smith has been able to upgrade the talent playing in a high school-caliber facility. I hope we break ground before we lose him.
by John M (The Crimson Quarry) on Mar 24, 2009 10:38 AM EDT reply actions
Purdue is in the same boat
They have had a proposed project for a new baseball facility in the works for years but the funding isn’t there. projects like the Mackey Arena renovation and such keep passing it. We’ve also been to just one NCAA Tournament (1987) and haven’t wonth e Big Ten since 1909
A futile crusade to prevent mass ignorance
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by BoilerTMill on Mar 24, 2009 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions
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