Indiana University Athletics
Tuesday, May 14
Bloomington, Ind.
7 p.m.
Indiana University
vs
Louisville
No. 21 Indiana Hosts No. 7 Louisville on Tuesday Night
5/13/2019 4:48:00 PM | Baseball
•Twenty-first ranked Indiana hosts the seventh ranked Louisville Cardinals at Bart Kaufman Field on Tuesday night. The game will be nationally televised on ESPNU.
• Friday will be the 51st ever meeting between IU and Louisville. The Hoosiers earned a 9-5 victory over the Cardinals in the last meeting on May 15, 2018 at Jim Patterson Stadium.
• Indiana leads the all-time series between the two schools, 28-22.
• 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 110-66 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.
• Louisville head coach Dan McDonnell is in his 13th season at Louisville. He is fourth nationally among active coaches in winning percentage and is a two-time National Coach of the Year (2017 and 2007).
• Indiana is coming off a weekend where it took two of three games on the road at No. 19 Michigan. The Hoosiers won the Friday games, 10-4 and 10-8 respectively, before falling 6-5 in 11 innings on Sunday.
• IU is ranked 21st in this week's Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll and is 25th in the D1Baseball.com Top 25.
• Freshman Gabe Bierman, Tuesday night's starter, was named Big Ten Freshman of the week. He tossed 4.1 scoreless innings of relief on the week, including three perfect innings on Friday at Michigan, where he struck out the final eight batters he faced to earn his first career save.
• The Hoosiers enter this week tied with Arizona State as the nation's leader with 84 home runs and trail the single-season school record by one (85 in 2010). Tennessee Tech trails both teams by just one home run.
• Additionally, Indiana enters the week first in the Big Ten in runs (351, 38th nationally) and total bases (806), is second in slugging percentage (.462, 30th) and RBI (316), and is third in doubles (99, 43rd) and walks (225).
• IU's pitching staff comes into this week leading the Big Ten in strikeout to walk ratio (2.94, 12th nationally) and strikeouts (494), is second in WHIP (1.24, 13th), strikeouts per nine innings (9.8, 19th), walks per nine innings (2nd, 34th), and fewest walks (168), and is third in ERA (3.55, 21st), hits allowed per nine innings (7.78, 28th) and opposing batting average (.230).
• Senior Matt Lloyd and sophomore Cole Barr are each tied for the Big Ten lead in home runs (15, 23rd nationally).
• Head coach Jeff Mercer has won six of his seven Big Ten series as IU's head coach. Dating back to his two years at Wright State, he has lost just just two league series as a head coach (at Illinois in 2019, vs. UIC in 2017).
• Since the start of the 2008 season, Indiana leads the Big Ten in wins (420) and conference wins (177). The Hoosiers have made six NCAA Regionals over that span, the most out of any current Big Ten team.
• Friday will be the 51st ever meeting between IU and Louisville. The Hoosiers earned a 9-5 victory over the Cardinals in the last meeting on May 15, 2018 at Jim Patterson Stadium.
• Indiana leads the all-time series between the two schools, 28-22.
• 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 110-66 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.
• Louisville head coach Dan McDonnell is in his 13th season at Louisville. He is fourth nationally among active coaches in winning percentage and is a two-time National Coach of the Year (2017 and 2007).
• Indiana is coming off a weekend where it took two of three games on the road at No. 19 Michigan. The Hoosiers won the Friday games, 10-4 and 10-8 respectively, before falling 6-5 in 11 innings on Sunday.
• IU is ranked 21st in this week's Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll and is 25th in the D1Baseball.com Top 25.
• Freshman Gabe Bierman, Tuesday night's starter, was named Big Ten Freshman of the week. He tossed 4.1 scoreless innings of relief on the week, including three perfect innings on Friday at Michigan, where he struck out the final eight batters he faced to earn his first career save.
• The Hoosiers enter this week tied with Arizona State as the nation's leader with 84 home runs and trail the single-season school record by one (85 in 2010). Tennessee Tech trails both teams by just one home run.
• Additionally, Indiana enters the week first in the Big Ten in runs (351, 38th nationally) and total bases (806), is second in slugging percentage (.462, 30th) and RBI (316), and is third in doubles (99, 43rd) and walks (225).
• IU's pitching staff comes into this week leading the Big Ten in strikeout to walk ratio (2.94, 12th nationally) and strikeouts (494), is second in WHIP (1.24, 13th), strikeouts per nine innings (9.8, 19th), walks per nine innings (2nd, 34th), and fewest walks (168), and is third in ERA (3.55, 21st), hits allowed per nine innings (7.78, 28th) and opposing batting average (.230).
• Senior Matt Lloyd and sophomore Cole Barr are each tied for the Big Ten lead in home runs (15, 23rd nationally).
• Head coach Jeff Mercer has won six of his seven Big Ten series as IU's head coach. Dating back to his two years at Wright State, he has lost just just two league series as a head coach (at Illinois in 2019, vs. UIC in 2017).
• Since the start of the 2008 season, Indiana leads the Big Ten in wins (420) and conference wins (177). The Hoosiers have made six NCAA Regionals over that span, the most out of any current Big Ten team.
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