Friday, March 29
College Park, MD
6:30 p.m.
Indiana University
at
Maryland
Hoosiers Travel to Maryland for Second Big Ten Weekend
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• Indiana baseball hits the road for its second weekend of Big Ten aciton begining on Friday in College Park for matchup with the Maryland Terrapins.
• Friday will be the 14th ever meeting between IU and Maryland. The two squads last met in Bloomington last season, with the Hoosiers sweeping the series.
• Indiana leads the all-time series between the two schools, 9-4.
• Indiana Head Coach Jeff Mercer is in his first season with the Hoosiers and his 10th overall year in coaching collegiately. He has posted an 92-57 career record after leading Wright State to winning seasons in each of his two years with the Raiders, including a 2018 Horizon League title and NCAA Regional appearance.
• Maryland Head Coach Rob Vaughn is in his second season as head coach with the Terrapins. He is in his seventh season overall at Maryland after five years as an assistant, most recently as associate head coach.
• Indiana is coming off a series sweep over the Iowa Hawkeyes this past weekend. Head coach Jeff Mercer became the first head coach in program history to earn a sweep in his Big Ten opening series (three game series minimum).
• The Hoosiers, who outscored the Hawkeyes 23-4 on the weekend, won eight straight games in a dating back to March 23 before falling to Kent State on Wednesday, 9-8 in 12 innings.
. The eight-game winning streak was longest since posting a nine-game streak last season from April 7th to the 20th.
• Freshman Grant Richardson and junior Tanner Gordon swept the Big Ten weekly awards on Monday. Richardson was named the Big Ten Player and Freshman of the Week, while
Gordon earned Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honors. It marked the first weekly awards for both players in their career.
• It is the first time in program history that Indiana has earned all three weekly awards. Additionally, the Hoosiers have earned at least one weekly award the last four weeks, which hasn't happened since the 2014 season.
• Richardson hit .471 on the week with two home runs, 11 RBI, two doubles and a stolen base. In last Tuesday's win at Indiana State, he went 2-for-5 with a home run and four RBI.
• In the Iowa series, he was 3-for-4 in the Saturday game against the Hawkeyes, driving in four runs and doubling. He followed that up with another 3-for-4 effort on Sunday, driving in three runs with a home run.
• Gordon fanned a career-high 12 batters against the Hawkeyes on Saturday, besting last's weeks 10-strikeout effort against Canisius. In his last two starts, the junior righty has struck out 22 batters, while allowing just seven hits and two earned runs in 15 innings.
• Indiana leads the conference in home runs (39, 3rd nationally), slugging percentage (.466, 24th nationally, and runs (164).
• Since the start of the 2008 season, Indiana leads the Big Ten in wins (399) and conference wins (164). The Hoosiers have made six NCAA Regionals over that span, the most out of any current Big Ten team.
• Friday will be the 14th ever meeting between IU and Maryland. The two squads last met in Bloomington last season, with the Hoosiers sweeping the series.
• Indiana leads the all-time series between the two schools, 9-4.
• Indiana Head Coach Jeff Mercer is in his first season with the Hoosiers and his 10th overall year in coaching collegiately. He has posted an 92-57 career record after leading Wright State to winning seasons in each of his two years with the Raiders, including a 2018 Horizon League title and NCAA Regional appearance.
• Maryland Head Coach Rob Vaughn is in his second season as head coach with the Terrapins. He is in his seventh season overall at Maryland after five years as an assistant, most recently as associate head coach.
• Indiana is coming off a series sweep over the Iowa Hawkeyes this past weekend. Head coach Jeff Mercer became the first head coach in program history to earn a sweep in his Big Ten opening series (three game series minimum).
• The Hoosiers, who outscored the Hawkeyes 23-4 on the weekend, won eight straight games in a dating back to March 23 before falling to Kent State on Wednesday, 9-8 in 12 innings.
. The eight-game winning streak was longest since posting a nine-game streak last season from April 7th to the 20th.
• Freshman Grant Richardson and junior Tanner Gordon swept the Big Ten weekly awards on Monday. Richardson was named the Big Ten Player and Freshman of the Week, while
Gordon earned Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honors. It marked the first weekly awards for both players in their career.
• It is the first time in program history that Indiana has earned all three weekly awards. Additionally, the Hoosiers have earned at least one weekly award the last four weeks, which hasn't happened since the 2014 season.
• Richardson hit .471 on the week with two home runs, 11 RBI, two doubles and a stolen base. In last Tuesday's win at Indiana State, he went 2-for-5 with a home run and four RBI.
• In the Iowa series, he was 3-for-4 in the Saturday game against the Hawkeyes, driving in four runs and doubling. He followed that up with another 3-for-4 effort on Sunday, driving in three runs with a home run.
• Gordon fanned a career-high 12 batters against the Hawkeyes on Saturday, besting last's weeks 10-strikeout effort against Canisius. In his last two starts, the junior righty has struck out 22 batters, while allowing just seven hits and two earned runs in 15 innings.
• Indiana leads the conference in home runs (39, 3rd nationally), slugging percentage (.466, 24th nationally, and runs (164).
• Since the start of the 2008 season, Indiana leads the Big Ten in wins (399) and conference wins (164). The Hoosiers have made six NCAA Regionals over that span, the most out of any current Big Ten team.
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