Illinois Baseball Report

…and then reality set in.  ok, we weren’t going to win EVERY game this season.  But the first loss of the year is sometimes a little harder to take.  After beating 3-0 Notre Dame Friday night, Illinois couldn’t come up with the offense and certainly not the pitching to defeat the winless University of South [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 27th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

That’s the way to start the season! Consider that the Illinois baseball team went into the Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenge cold having missed the first weekend of play due to weather while their opponents, Notre Dame, got a three game head start.  Consider also that same Notre Dame team won all three of their games [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 27th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

A quick note:  Sports Information Director Ben Taylor will be live blogging today’s opening game against Notre Dame.  Ben is inviting fans to log in, follow along and even submit comments during the game.  You will find the landing page for the live blogging at the Illinois baseball web site. Share Tags: live blogging, notre [...]

Filed under: Media on February 26th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Ok, this time, it’s for real.  No chance of a winter weather advisory down in Clearwater, Florida so Play Ball! The Illinois baseball team are probably on their way right now to Florida in order to participate in the Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenge (I once asked someone in the know why the “Big East” was [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on February 26th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Obviously an off weekend for the Illini but here’s a look at the Big Ten standings after one weekend.  The Bucks end up with three wins.  Northwestern… four losses. Team Record Pct. Record Pct. Ohio State 0-0 .000 3-0 1.000 Michigan State 0-0 .000 2-1 .667 Minnesota 0-0 .000 2-1 .667 Michigan 0-0 .000 2-2 [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on February 23rd, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Without playing any games, Illinois predictably finds themselves right in the middle of the Big Ten non-conference standings at sixth place.  The big winner this weekend is Ohio State who won both of their games while Northwestern and Indiana went oh-fer three. Michigan may have gotten a bit of a scare today.  All-American outfielder Ryan [...]

Filed under: history on February 22nd, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

This is opening weekend for Big Ten Baseball albeit without the Illini.  Those teams lucky enough to play in warmer climates have been doing fairly well at least for the first two days.  In the 11 games played Friday and Saturday, the Big Ten is 7-4 led by two wallopings by Michigan over Jacksonville State [...]

Filed under: Big Ten, history on February 20th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Hang up your down coat.  Pack away your snow pants.  You won’t need them this weekend.  The Bradley series this coming weekend has been canceled due to the “forecasted below-average temperatures and current snow cover”.  I doubt this series ever had a fleeting chance given our cold winter this year.  They didn’t even wait till [...]

Filed under: Announcements on February 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

formerlyanonymous who covers Michigan baseball for mgoblog.com, did a fair assessment of the 2010 Big Ten Baseball teams.  While of course, I would like to see Illinois higher in his preview (he puts him in the second tier after Ohio State, Michigan and Minnesota), it’s pretty consistent with what I’ve seen elsewhere.  And he has [...]

Filed under: Analysis on February 18th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Fightingillini.com came out with their Illinois Baseball Pitchers Preview for 2010 today.  Nothing too earth-shattering about it nor should it have been.  The outlook with the pitching staff was relatively predictable.  Sophomores Will Strack and Bryan Roberts, who both looked real good last year and virtually unhittable at some points, will be the Friday and [...]

Filed under: Analysis on February 17th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »