Baseball Gameday: at Clemson

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – College baseball is back, and the Indiana baseball program will kick off the 2022 season against perennial NCAA Tournament team Clemson on Friday (Feb. 18) at Doug Kingsmore Stadium. The Hoosiers and Tigers will meet of the first time in program history in the three-game series.

Gameday Info

Friday, February 18 (4 p.m.)
Probable Starters
IU: John-Biagio Modugno, RHP, Jr.
CU: Mack Anglin, RHP, So.

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Saturday, February 19 (3 p.m.)
Probable Starters
IU: Jack Perkins, RHP, R-Jr.
CU: Nick Clayton, RHP, So.

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Sunday, February 20 (1 p.m.)
Probable Starters
IU: TBA
CU: Nick Hoffmann, RHP, So.

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Quick Hitters

Indiana will open the 128th year of baseball against its 341st all-time opponent. Overall, IU owns a 77-49-1 record on Opening Day. MORE ON PAGE 7
Head coach Jeff Mercer enters the 2022 season with 72 victories as the Indiana frontman and is poised to become the eighth IU skipper to reach 100 victories in the cream and crimson. FULL BIO ON PAGE 4
Junior John-Biagio Modugno will get the start on Opening Day for Indiana. The New Jersey born right-hander is the first non-Indiana born Opening Day starter since Jonathan Stiever (Cedarburg, Wis.) started the 2018 opener versus Oklahoma in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Indiana was great playing with the lead in 2021, as it scored first in 23 games with a 20-3 record in those contests. Of the 26 victories, IU drove in the eventual game-winning run in 17 of those. MORE ON PAGE 5
Indiana matched a school standard with four student-athletes selected in the first 10 rounds of the Major League Baseball Draft in 2021. MORE ON PAGE 7
Indiana will add three new opponents to the all-time ledger in 2022, starting Opening Day with Clemson. The Hoosiers will also meet Louisiana-Lafayette and Missouri State for the first time. MORE ON PAGE 3 & 7
Indiana returns just two players that started at least 22 games (50 percent of the season) during the 2021 Big Ten-only campaign. MORE ON PAGE 7.

Scouting the Opponent

Clemson posted a 25-27 overall record to mark the first losing season for the Tigers in over 60 years. The last time a Clemson team posted a losing season was 1957 (6-12).
Players who accounted for 42 percent of the starts in the field during the 2021 season return in 2022.
Caden Grice, a Freshman All-American and second-team All-ACC pick, returns after leading the team in RBIs (53), home runs (15) and on-base percentage (.427). The left-handed hitter finished No. 2 on the team with a .317 batting average as a freshman.
Dylan Brewer also posted a double-digit home run season in 2021 with 10. He drove in 31 RBIs and tied for a team-high with six stolen bases.
Mack Anglin led the Clemson starting pitchers with a 3.99 ERA over 56 1/3 innings of work. He held opponents to a .227 batting average against and struck out 75 to 33 walks.

Series Notes

Indiana will meet Clemson for the first time in program history when the two teams meet to open the 2022 season.
Of the current alignment of the conference, IU has met 10 of the 13 ACC institutions that sponsor baseball, with Clemson marking the 11th member to join IU record books.
North Carolina and Virginia are the two programs IU has not met on the diamond, while Syracuse dropped baseball in 1972.
The first meeting against the current alignment of the conference came versus Notre Dame in 1901. The Fighting Irish are also the most common opponent with 99 meetings.
Louisville is the next most played opponent at 53 games.
In the last 20 meetings against ACC programs, Indiana holds a 13-7 mark in those contests.

Players Mentioned

John-Biagio Modugno

Jack Perkins

Jonathan Stiever

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