Next Game: Game #4 Fri Feb 29, 6:30 pm Record: 2-1 vs Baylor #24 at Waco, Tx It’s back to Lone State for the Illini baseball team as they play in the Quala-T Imprints Baylor Classic tournament. First up on Leap Day is the home team, Baylor: Opponent: Baylor Nickname:…
Go Illinois! Game #1 Friday, Feb. 22 3pm Record: 0-0 vs Sam Houston State at Edinburgh, TX Tomorrow night, the University of Illinois begin their 2008 season. They take on Sam Houston State in the first game of the Al Ogletree Classic Tournament in warm Edinburgh, Texas. Word from the…
The Illinois baseball season starts a week from Friday in the warm weather of Texas (see University of Illinois baseball schedule here). FightingIllini.com just did an in-house review of the position players. No doubt a review of the pitchers will be coming soon. There will be some changes on the…
Zealot friend Brian DeCaussin from the excellent site Big Ten Hardball takes a turn at reviewing the University of Illinois squad. He does a quite thorough job. His take on the Illini? The good thing for Illinois is that outside of Michigan, the remainder of the conference appears to be…
As we head into the college baseball season, Big Ten Hardball has been busy previewing the Big Ten teams. Today it was Illinois’ turn. As an Illini fan, I’m biased, of course. So it was nice to see these words in the review: Illinois is my dark horse choice in…
This time it’s the Infielders and Outfielders Preview. In 2006, the Illini lost a big chunk of their team to graduation. Well, guess what? The young, green team of 2006 have one more year of experience and are that much better for it Coach Hartleb says: “Shawn plays with such…