Indiana Softball to Play Midweek Game at Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky. –––– After opening Big Ten play at Penn State over the weekend, Indiana is already back in action for a midweek game on Tuesday at Louisville.

This will be Indiana's second time facing an ACC opponent in 2024 after playing No. 5 Clemson in the second game of the season. It will also be Indiana's first matchup against Louisville since the 2023 NCAA Tournament when the two squads played twice with Indiana winning both times.

The Hoosiers enter the game with a 22-9 record while Louisville is 20-12.

QUICK HITTERS:

The matchup with Louisville will be the first official meeting between the Hoosiers and Cardinals since last year's NCAA Tournament. Both teams were slotted in the Knoxville Regional with Indiana getting the No. 2 seed and Louisville taking the No. 3 seed.
Indiana won in close games both times, defeating Louisville 4-3 and 4-2 in those games. The Hoosiers also won in the regular season in Bloomington, 10-5.
Indiana opened the conference portion of the schedule when it faced Penn State last weekend in Happy Valley. Penn State won all three games in the Big Ten opening series.
Against FAU earlier this month, Indiana defeated the Owls, 4-1. In the game, redshirt senior Cora Bassett recorded her 200th career hit. The hit occurred on the same field as her first career hit as Bassett began her college career playing in a tournament at FAU in 2020 when she was a student-athlete at Purdue.

LAST TIME OUT:

In their opening Big Ten series, Indiana got swept at Penn State. The Hoosiers will look to bounce back at Louisville on Tuesday and in their home-opening Big Ten series against Michigan in Bloomington this weekend.
In the Penn State series, Indiana sophomore Avery Parker hit .300 for the weekend, including going yard for a two-run home run in the top of the first inning in the Saturday game at Penn State. Parker is having a stellar sophomore season, serving as the starting catcher and hitting .329 for the season with seven home runs and 21 RBI, as well.
Redshirt senior Cora Bassett also hit a home run in the Penn State series. She launched a ball over the left field fence in the Sunday game against the Nittany Lions for the Hoosiers to go up 1-0 in the top of the third.
Junior Brianna Copeland pitched in all three games against Penn State, charting a combined 13 strikeouts against them. After that weekend's performance, Copeland has 96 strikeouts on the season.

SCOUTING THE OPPONENT:

Louisville enters the midweek game with a 20-12 record and have lost three of their last four. Over the weekend, Louisville hosted No. 6 Duke. The Blue Devils won the series, but Louisville took an impressive win on Saturday, winning in eight innings, 2-1.
The Cardinals have played one other conference series, dropping three games to No. 20 Virginia Tech at home during the weekend of March 8-10.
Louisville has played at home for one other weekend when it hosted the Cardinal Classic and went 3-1 in the event. Louisville's best win of the season was against No. 21 Arizona in a midweek game.
Alyssa Zabala leads the way in the circle, throwing 85.2 innings with a 13-6 record, 2.70 ERA and 66 strikeouts.
Daisy Hess and Riley Frizell are two of the Cards' best bats as Hess leads the team in batting average (.356) and Frizell leads in home runs (8). Chelsea Mack is also hitting for a .351 batting average on the season.

SERIES NOTES:

Louisville leads the all-time series record against Indiana, 6-20.
Indiana has won three in a row against Louisville, with all three of those games coming in 2023.

Indiana Softball to Play Midweek Game at Louisville

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Players Mentioned

Cora Bassett

Brianna Copeland

Avery Parker

Indiana Softball to Play Midweek Game at Louisville

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Players Mentioned

Cora Bassett

Brianna Copeland

Avery Parker

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