Illinois Baseball Report

A friendly reader told me I was a bit negative as far as the Illini’s chances for the tourney in my weekend preview.  She might be right.  I need to drink from the glass half full.   Bischoff:  23 straight But tonight’s game didn’t help (you saw that coming).  Purdue’s Matt Bischoff had the Illini [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 14th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

For this week’s two midweek games, we’re playing two state universities… Eastern Illinois and Southern Illinois.  Don’t look at their records.  Both are tough in their own way.  As for us, we’re even-steven.  The Illini are 13-13 overall and 3-3 against the Big Ten.  Let’s take a look at both teams.   Eastern Illinois Panthers [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 12th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

I ran across some old photographs on my system that not been previously posted.  By old I mean 2005, before I started blogging about the team.  To put this into historical context, this was the year that Illinois won the Big Ten Championship.  It was also Coach Itch Jones’ last year. These photos actually have [...]

Filed under: history on February 10th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Just a couple interesting articles I ran across beyond the usual fare.  I thought I’d pass them along. IlliniHQ.com has a nice piece by Jeff Huth looking back to 1998 when former Illinois coach Itch Jones won his 1,000 game.  Also, the Big Ten web site has a nice feature article on Ben Reeser dealing [...]

Filed under: Media on April 24th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

This past weekend, the University of Illinois baseball program took some time to honor recently retired coach Richard “Itch” Jones as well as the 2005 Illinois Big Ten Championship team.  About 200 people were in attendance for the program which included video clips of Jones’ tenure at Illinois.  After the reception, the 2005 team was [...]

Filed under: UI Baseball Program and Management on January 30th, 2006 | Leave a Comment! »

Maybe others saw this coming but this came as a surprise. UI Baseball coach Richard “Itch” Jones has decided to retire after 15 years as Illinois coach and 39 years of college coaching. Then again, there’s something to be said for getting out while you’re on top. Itch led the Illini to a Big Ten [...]

Filed under: UI Baseball Program and Management on June 14th, 2005 | 3 Comments »

Well, classes have been over for a couple weeks but if you’re a college baseball fan, things are still abuzz this week here in Champaign-Urbana. Tomorrow, the Big Ten Baseball Tournament begins! Big Ten Coach of the Year Itch Jones First things first though. Illinois Coach Itch Jones was named Big Ten Coach of Year. [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on May 24th, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »

I attended the Illini game last night and it wasn’t pretty. They lost their fifth in a row and their magic number remains at two. With three games left against Iowa this weekend, they need to win the next two to clinch the Big Ten title. Brian Blomquist took the loss last night and it [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 21st, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »