Illinois Baseball Report

On the right sidebar, I placed an icon to my gallery of photos of the Illinois baseball team from the past three years.  Take a look around if you want.  I’m going to still host the photos on my thebaseballzealot.com domain mostly because it’s just easier that way.  Unfortunately, the photos aren’t as indexed or [...]

Filed under: Blog Administration on February 18th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

It may be freezing here in central Illinois but for Friday at Illinois-Iowa’s game time, it’s forecasted to be a balmy 51 degrees.  Here again is the rundown of the (updated) weekend schedule for the BIG EAST/Big Ten Challenge:   Games #1,2,3 Record: 0-0 Feb 20 – 6:30 CST vs Iowa at Jack Russell Stadium, [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on February 18th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

You can view/download the Big Ten Network baseball schedule in pdf form here. BTN opens their baseball season with back-to-back games between Illinois and Michigan (who have been establishing a rivalry in the past few years, it seems) on March 27 and March 28.  Two weekends after that, we’ll be treated to one game on [...]

Filed under: Media on February 16th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Due to one field not being playable, there has been some changes in the Big East/Big Ten Challenge this weekend.  Here are the Illini Games scheduled:   Friday, 6:30pm  Illinois at Iowa Jack Russell Stadium Saturday 6:30pm  Illinois at Notre Dame McKechnie Field Sunday 12:00 noon  West Virginia at Illinois Naimoli Complex   Big Ten [...]

Filed under: Announcements on February 15th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Welcome to Illinois Baseball Report! This is the first official post of this fan blog dedicated to the University of Illinois baseball team and program. That said, you will see three years’ worth of posts and articles going back to 2005 which I imported from another blog of mine, The Baseball Zealot.  They’ve been tag [...]

Filed under: Blog Administration on February 15th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Zealot friend Brian D from Big Ten Hardball does his annual review of Big Ten baseball team and predicts Illinois to at least make the tournament in 2009.  Brian’s bottom line?? Illinois will go as far as their pitching lets them. This team, like many of the recent Illini squads, should swing the bats well [...]

Filed under: Analysis, Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on February 15th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »