Indiana beat Florida State and is advancing to the College World Series. They are the first Big Ten team since Michigan in 1984.
http://www.cbssports.com/general/blog/ey...rld-series
Glad to see some Big Ten baseball success. The sport was my first love, but I'll admit I've never paid attention to it at the college level.
Congrats to the Hoosiers! Good to see the Big 10 doing well in "southern' sports this year.
This is the first year I've ever watched College level and first time College Baseball has interested me.
The first time I knew that college baseball was a "thing" was when I was doing my grad studies at UT Knoxville. I never knew the history, but that was shortly after the SEC college baseball revolution.
Given the fact that summer is not an NCAA sports season, the southern conferences have a substantial geographic advantage over the northern conferences in baseball, so its good to see Indiana flying the flag.
Plus I don't have a four decade ingrained cheering against Indiana Basketball to overcome, when it comes to Indiana Baseball.
Indiana beats Louisville in the first game.
Faces Mississippi State next
Lose 5-4 to Mississippi State
Face Oregon State in elim game
Eliminated 1-0 by Oregon State. Two one-run losses
Indiana had a great run this year and hopefully they can continue that.
Add Baseball as a sport the Big 10 can be nationally competitive at along with LaCrosse(Johns Hopkins & MD) Wrestling (PSU & Iowa) Swimming (Michigan, Indiana) Soccer(Indiana & Maryland) Ice Hockey(Wisconsin & Minnesota, MSU) Tennis (Illinois) Hoops(Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State)
That's a record no other conference can match with that many programs being in the top 5 if not top 2 of all these team sports.
(08-08-2013 11:39 AM)Poliicious Wrote: [ -> ]Indiana had a great run this year and hopefully they can continue that.
Add Baseball as a sport the Big 10 can be nationally competitive at along with LaCrosse(Johns Hopkins & MD) Wrestling (PSU & Iowa) Swimming (Michigan, Indiana) Soccer(Indiana & Maryland) Ice Hockey(Wisconsin & Minnesota, MSU) Tennis (Illinois) Hoops(Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State)
That's a record no other conference can match with that many programs being in the top 5 if not top 2 of all these team sports.
Men's Gymnastics (Michigan won, Illinois year before, 4 of top 6 were B1G teams)
(08-08-2013 11:39 AM)Poliicious Wrote: [ -> ]Indiana had a great run this year and hopefully they can continue that.
Add Baseball as a sport the Big 10 can be nationally competitive at along with LaCrosse(Johns Hopkins & MD) Wrestling (PSU & Iowa) Swimming (Michigan, Indiana) Soccer(Indiana & Maryland) Ice Hockey(Wisconsin & Minnesota, MSU) Tennis (Illinois) Hoops(Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State)
That's a record no other conference can match with that many programs being in the top 5 if not top 2 of all these team sports.
Virtually the entire conference is good at Wrestling. Many schools are perennial Top 25 squads. Rutgers while usually ok at Wrestling is really becoming very good under Scott Goodale. That's a sport I expect we'll add to the conference right away in.
(08-09-2013 06:32 PM)dbackjon Wrote: [ -> ] (08-08-2013 11:39 AM)Poliicious Wrote: [ -> ]Indiana had a great run this year and hopefully they can continue that.
Add Baseball as a sport the Big 10 can be nationally competitive at along with LaCrosse(Johns Hopkins & MD) Wrestling (PSU & Iowa) Swimming (Michigan, Indiana) Soccer(Indiana & Maryland) Ice Hockey(Wisconsin & Minnesota, MSU) Tennis (Illinois) Hoops(Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State)
That's a record no other conference can match with that many programs being in the top 5 if not top 2 of all these team sports.
Men's Gymnastics (Michigan won, Illinois year before, 4 of top 6 were B1G teams)
Much more to college sports than football and the B10 is championship calibre in most sports. Thanks for the Gymnastics add