No. 12 Hoosiers Host Illini This Weekend

No. 12 Indiana vs. Illinois \| April 27-29 \| Bloomington, Ind.
Series Schedule	Coverage	Projected Starters
Indiana vs. Illinois Friday - 6:05 p.m. ET	Watch \| Listen \| Stats	IU - RHP Jonathan Stiever (5-1, 2.48) ILL - LHP Andy Fisher (3-1, 3.98)
Indiana vs. Illinois Saturday - 2:05 p.m. ET	Watch \| Listen \| Stats	IU - LHP Cam Beauchamp (4-0, 2.97) ILL - RHP Quinn Snarskis (4-1, 3.40)
Indiana vs. Illinois Sunday - 2 p.m. ET	Watch \| Listen \| Stats	IU - TBA ILL - RHP Ty Weber (4-1, 3.00)
Social: Twitter \| Instagram // Game Notes: Indiana \| Illinois

• Indiana (29-9, 7-4) returns to Bart Kaufman Field this weekend as it hosts the Illinois Fighting Illini in a three-game series.

• Friday will be the 193rd ever meeting between IU and Illinois. The two squads last met in Bloomington in 2016, with the Hoosiers earning the series win, 2-1.

• Illinois leads the all-time series between the two schools, 112-79-1.

• Indiana Head Coach Chris Lemonis is in his fourth season leading the Hoosier baseball program and his 24th overall year in coaching. He has posted a 130-81-2 record and has led the program to two regional at-large bids in his first three full seasons.

• Illinois head coach Dan Hartleb is in his 13th season as head coach at Illinois and 28th season on the Illini coaching staff in 2018. Hartleb ranks among the winningest coaches in school history, as he has 401 career victories.

• The Hoosiers are ranked in all five national polls. IU is ranked 12th by Perfect Game, 15th by D1 Baseball, 15th by the NCBWA, 16th in the ESPN/USA Today Coahes Poll, and 18th by Baseball America.

• The .763 winning percentage for IU currently stands seventh nationally. On top of that, the +3.5 scoring margin for the Hoosiers is good for seventh in the country.

• Of the nine losses this season for Indiana, seven have been three runs or less and four have been by one run.

• The IU pitching staff leads the nation in ERA (2.45), is first in the Big Ten in shutouts (7, 3rd nationally), WHIP (1.22, 15th), walks per nine innings (3.10, 19th), and strikeout to walk ratio (2.53, 41st), and is third in hits per nine innings (7.9, 40th) and opponent average (.237).

• Offensively, Indiana is first in the Big Ten in slugging percentage (.454, 25th nationally), doubles (76) and total bases (.591), is second in home runs (40, 34th), on base percentage (.393, 37th), and hit by pitch (52), and is third in batting average (.291, 44th), hits (379), runs (253) and sacrifice flies (19).

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Players Mentioned

Jonathan Stiever

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