Illinois Baseball Report

The Big Ten Records Book has now been updated to reflect the 2011 season.  For those of us interested in Big Ten Baseball here is their Baseball Records page. The Records Book includes records of every type of category.  It begins with an overview of the 2011 season then includes standings for every year of [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on October 21st, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

… there won’t be any. They will be busy incorporating Nebraska into our fair conference but for now, twelve is big enough. From their statement: “Although the conference will continue to monitor the intercollegiate landscape, it will not be actively engaged in conference expansion for the foreseeable future and does not expect to be proactively [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on December 5th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Good news!  The Big Ten Records Book has been updated and is now available to everyone in pdf format. I love this kind of stuff.  If we want statistics from Major League Baseball’s past, we only need to go Retrosheet.org or BaseballReference.com and we have it all.  It’s all there… just a few mouse clicks [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on October 26th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Nebraska won unanimous approval to join the Big Ten from conference leaders Friday.  U of I interim president Stan Ikenberry assured us that academically, Nebraska was a “good fit” as if it were an afterthought.  The idea of Big Ten expansion is a bit scary and to some, irritating.  I ran the issue by a [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on June 12th, 2010 | 1 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 »

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! »

The Big Ten announced today that Columbus, Ohio has locked up the Big Ten Baseball Tournament through 2012.  Specifically, the tourney will be played at Bill Davis Stadium in 2010.  It will then return to Huntington Park where the 2009 Tournament was played for the years 2011 and 2012. From the Big Ten Network: The [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on December 16th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Indiana did pretty well in the first day of the MLB draft.  Three Hoosiers were drafted in the first 50 picks. Share Tags: Big Ten, first-year player draft, indiana Related posts Something new to check out for the new year (0) Big Ten updates their Records Book (0) Check out the new IBR banner! (1) [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on June 9th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Ouch. Share Tags: NCAA Regionals, ohio state Related posts Illini players make it on SportsCenter (0) The Magical Season is over (0) Illinois, Anderson defeat Kansas St 5-3 to keep them in Regionals (0) NCAA Regionals: A CS Fullerton connection and a few quick links (1) NCAA Regionals: A look at the Cal State Fullerton [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on June 1st, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

MSU fan Tom Tomkins posted some Spartan photos from last weekend’s series against Northwestern on his blog, Oak Openings and Observations.  It looks like we played MSU at just about the right time.  After we swept them, they mightily defeated Central Michigan 20-3.  The Roof Brothers (brothers of former Illinois SS Shawn) had an incredible [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on April 8th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »