Indiana University Athletics
Tuesday, May 7
Lexington, KY
7 p.m.
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No. 25 Indiana Heads to Lexington for Midweek Game with Wildcats
5/6/2019 10:28:00 PM | Baseball
• Nineteenth ranked Indiana travels to Illinois Field this weekend, taking on the Illinois Fighting Illini in a three-game series.
• Tuesday will be the 42nd ever meeting between IU and Kentucky. The two squads last met in Bloomington last season with the Wildcats earning a 7-6 victory.
• Kentucky leads the all-time series between the two schools, 23-18.
• 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 108-64 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.
• Kentucky head coach Nick Mingione is in his third season as head coach with the Wildcats. In his first season in 2017, the Cats' 43 wins were just two shy of the school record and the most for any first-year coach in the program's history.
• Indiana is coming off a weekend where it dropped two of three games to the Illinois Fighting Illini, but winning the Sunday game in decisive fashion, 9-2, and outscored Illinois in the series, 10-9.
• IU is ranked 25th in this week's Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll and is receiving votes in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll and the NCBWA Poll.
• The Hoosiers enter the week as the nation's leader with 81 home runs and trail the single-season school record by four (85 in 2010). New Mexico State is second nationally with 75 home runs.
• Additionally, Indiana comes into Tuesday first in the Big Ten in slugging percentage (.477, 16th nationally), runs (324, 39th), RBI (294) and total bases (754), and is third in doubles (88).
• IU's pitching staff is first in the Big Ten in strikeout to walk ratio (2.95, 13th), WHIP (1.20, 12th) and strikeouts (451), is second in ERA (3.39, 14th), strikeouts per nine innings (9.8, 21st), walks per nine innings (3.32, 28th) and fewest walks (154), and is third in hits allowed per nine innings (7.48, 15th) and opponent batting average (.224).
• Junior Matt Gorski, who leads the Big Ten in stolen bases and runs, has reached base safely in 17-straight games.
• Senior Matt Lloyd and sophomore Cole Barr pace the Big Ten with 14 home runs, while Gorski is fourth with 11.
• Lloyd also lead s the Big Ten in RBI and is second in slugging percentage and total bases.
• Sophomore Elijah Dunham has recorded a hit in nine of his last 10 games and has walked in seven of his last eight games.
• Head coach Jeff Mercer won his first five conference 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 (418) and conference wins (175). The Hoosiers have made six NCAA Regionals over that span, the most out of any current Big Ten team.
• Tuesday will be the 42nd ever meeting between IU and Kentucky. The two squads last met in Bloomington last season with the Wildcats earning a 7-6 victory.
• Kentucky leads the all-time series between the two schools, 23-18.
• 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 108-64 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.
• Kentucky head coach Nick Mingione is in his third season as head coach with the Wildcats. In his first season in 2017, the Cats' 43 wins were just two shy of the school record and the most for any first-year coach in the program's history.
• Indiana is coming off a weekend where it dropped two of three games to the Illinois Fighting Illini, but winning the Sunday game in decisive fashion, 9-2, and outscored Illinois in the series, 10-9.
• IU is ranked 25th in this week's Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll and is receiving votes in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll and the NCBWA Poll.
• The Hoosiers enter the week as the nation's leader with 81 home runs and trail the single-season school record by four (85 in 2010). New Mexico State is second nationally with 75 home runs.
• Additionally, Indiana comes into Tuesday first in the Big Ten in slugging percentage (.477, 16th nationally), runs (324, 39th), RBI (294) and total bases (754), and is third in doubles (88).
• IU's pitching staff is first in the Big Ten in strikeout to walk ratio (2.95, 13th), WHIP (1.20, 12th) and strikeouts (451), is second in ERA (3.39, 14th), strikeouts per nine innings (9.8, 21st), walks per nine innings (3.32, 28th) and fewest walks (154), and is third in hits allowed per nine innings (7.48, 15th) and opponent batting average (.224).
• Junior Matt Gorski, who leads the Big Ten in stolen bases and runs, has reached base safely in 17-straight games.
• Senior Matt Lloyd and sophomore Cole Barr pace the Big Ten with 14 home runs, while Gorski is fourth with 11.
• Lloyd also lead s the Big Ten in RBI and is second in slugging percentage and total bases.
• Sophomore Elijah Dunham has recorded a hit in nine of his last 10 games and has walked in seven of his last eight games.
• Head coach Jeff Mercer won his first five conference 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 (418) and conference wins (175). The Hoosiers have made six NCAA Regionals over that span, the most out of any current Big Ten team.
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