17th Ranked Hoosiers Open 124th Season on Friday

Indiana at The 19th Annual Brittain Resorts Baseball at The Beach \| Feb. 16-19 \| Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Series Schedule	Coverage	Projected Starters
Indiana vs. Oklahoma Friday - Noon ET	Listen \| Live Stats	IU - RHP Jonathan Stiever (0-0, 0.00 ERA) OU - RHP Jake Irvin (0-0, 0.00 ERA)
Indiana vs. Kansas State Saturday - Noon ET	Listen \| Live Stats	IU - RHP Pauly Milto (0-0, 0.00 ERA) KSU - RHP Gabe Littlejim (0-0, 0.00 ERA)
Indiana vs. South Alabama Sunday - 10:30 p.m. ET	Live Stats	IU - TBA USA - TBA
Indiana vs. Coastal Carolina Monday - 11:00 a.m. ET	Watch \| Live Stats	IU - TBA CC - TBA
Social: Twitter \| Instagram // Notes: Indiana

• Indiana opens the 2018 campaign in Myrtle Beach Carolina as it partakes in the 19th Annual Brittain Resorts Baseball at the Beach. The Hoosiers will face Oklahoma (Friday, Noon), Kansas State (Saturday, Noon), South Alabama (Sunday, 10:30 a.m.), and Coastal Carolina (Sunday, 11 a.m.).

• The Hoosiers enter the season ranked in four polls and are receiving votes in two. IU is ranked 17th by Perfect Game, 20th by Baseball America, 23rd by D1 Baseball, and 24th by the NCBWA.

• Two out of IU's four opponents this weekend are ranked in at least one preseason poll (Oklahoma and South Alabama), while Coastal Carolina was the 2016 National Champions.

• IU was voted the preseason favorite to claim the 2018 Big Ten Baseball Championship as voted on by the conference coaches.

• Junior Matt Lloyd, junior Luke Miller and senior Logan Sowers were named Indiana's three Players to Watch by the Big Ten.

• Lloyd racked up preseason laurels from the NCBWA, earning second team Preseason All-American honors and a spot on the Stopper of the Year Watch List, an award recognizing the nation's top relief pitcher

• Entering 2018, Indiana returns 100 percent of its starts, 94 percent of its wins, 91 percent of its innings pitched, and strikeouts. The Hoosiers also bring back 62 percent of its runs and hits, 61 percent of its RBIs, and 59 percent of its extra-
base hits.

• Since the start of the 2008 season, Indiana leads the Big Ten in wins (344) and conference wins (147). The Hoosiers have made five NCAA Regionals over that span, the most out of any current Big Ten team.

• For the fourth time in five years, Indiana was selected to the 2017 NCAA Baseball Tournament field. The No. 2-seeded Hoosiers played in the Lexington Regional.

• Last season marked Indiana's seventh NCAA tournament appearance (1949, 1996, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017). Head coach Chris Lemonis became the first coach in program history to make two regionals in his first three seasons as IU's skipper.

• It marked Indiana's second ever at large big in the NCAA Tournament (1949, 1996, 2009, 2013 and 2014 were automatic bids), with both of those at large bids coming in the Lemonis era.

• The Hoosiers finished the 2017 regular season just one game out of third place in the Big Ten and only two games out of first place in the conference. IU played 18 games this season against Big Ten teams that qualified for the conference tournament, more than any other team participating in the field.

• The Hoosiers closed the 2017 regular season winning their last six series, dating back to the Minnesota series in April. Those six series included Minnesota, at No. 13 Michigan, No. 15 Maryland, Xavier, Penn State and at Ohio State. Indiana also won six series in a row in 2016, taking series from Purdue, Iowa, at Michigan State, Northwestern, at Minnesota and Illinois.

17th Ranked Hoosiers Open 124th Season on Friday

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Players Mentioned

Matt Lloyd

Luke Miller

Pauly Milto

Logan Sowers

Jonathan Stiever