Announced this morning that they will now play at 1pm and 5pm today, NO GAME on Friday and then still currently scheduled for 2pm Saturday.

I love watching that kid play. Crazy that he just turned 25….

The weather forecast promises to play havoc with the series with scheduling adjustments to it seeming to be a likelihood if the forecast is fairly accurate. Sunday is the best day of the weekend, but the conference tournament starts just two days later on Tuesday, so neither team would want that.

Thursday's game is on BTN.

Starting pitchers:

Thursday (5 p.m. ET)

LHP Ty Bothwell will be in the mound for IU with an ERA of 5.21 in 65.2 IP and a WHIP of 1.20 with an OBA of .260.

It's TBD for Michigan.

Friday (6 p.m. ET)

RHP Connor Foley will be on the mound for IU with an ERA of 4.10 in 52.2 IP and a WHIP of 1.20 with an OBA of .158.

It's TBD for Michigan.

Saturday (2 p.m. ET)

It's TBD for both teams.

With Michigan not naming any starters up to this point, I got these excerpts concerning their pitching from the Michigan article on the series.

"Michigan has not had a consistent rotation but has utilized Kurt Barr, Jacob Denner, Chase Allen and Dylan Vigue among others over the past few weekends."

"Barr leads the Wolverines pitching staff this season with a 3.54 ERA across 73.2 innings. He is 5-3 on the season with eight starts and 18 appearances. Barr is ninth in the conference among qualified pitchers with a 3.70 ERA in Big Ten games and fifth among pitchers with 40 innings or more. He earned Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honors in March after 11 innings pitched with a 0.82 ERA."

"In his fifth season, Denner has moved up the U-M career ranks. His 91 appearances are good for third all-time, and he recently passed Evan Hill for fifth place on the Michigan innings-pitched list with 275. Denner's four combined strikeouts over the weekend against Purdue and Tuesday's contest against the Zips put him at 254, one short of fifth place (Brett Adcock, 255)."


Stats to include both overall stats and B1G game stats only.

Batting:

Overall - IU is 5th with a team batting average of .295. B1G games only - They are 5th with an average of .285. In 50 games, IU has 69 homers, 115 doubles. and 7 triples.

Overall - Michigan is 12th with a team average of .265. B1G games only - They are 10th with an average of .269. In 53 games, Michigan has 63 homers, 113 doubles, and 7 triples.

Pitching:

Overall - IU is 10th with a team ERA of 6.28. B1G games only - They are 6th with an ERA of 5.67. In 50 games, IU has given up 80 homers and 219 walks. IU has Kd 482 batters.

Overall - Michigan is 6th with a team ERA of 6.01. B1G games only - They are 3rd with an ERA of 4.88. In 53 games, Michigan has given up 61 homers and 280 walks. UM has Kd 315 batters.

Fielding:

IU's fielding is .964 and they have 63 errors in 50 games. Michigan's fielding is .975 and they have 51 errors in 53 games.


Weather forecast:

Thurs - It's expected to be 74 at game time (5 p.m., ET) and intermittent clouds with an 18 pct chance of rain. Wind is expected to be out of the SW at 6 mph. They are expecting rain and thunderstorms between the 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. hours with the rain tapering off leading up to the 5 p.m. game time. The chance of rain builds up at the 8 p.m. hour to a 34 pct chance.

Fri - It's expected to be 67 at game time (6 p.m., ET) and cloudy with a 34 pct chance of rain. Wind is expected to be out of the SE at 6 mph with almost no wind gusts. They are expecting thunderstorms during the morning hours and again during the 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. hours with the chance of rain starting to taper off leading up to the 6 p.m. game time. However, they are expecting the rain chances to start building during the 7 p.m. hour with possible thunderstorms during the 8 p.m. through 9 p.m. hours.

Sat - They didn't forecast by the hour, but they expect the temp to be 76 at game time (2 p.m., ET) with times of sun and clouds and with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm. Wind is expected out of the WNW at 5 mph.

Add 5/6 players again next year. Man that sounds like a lot of work for a 66 year old : year in and year out.

So terrible.

The school district’s superintendent, Dr. Harold Olin, denied any bullying reports had ever been submitted by either the parents or the boy.

if Harold is found to be lying, he should be hanged in public.

id bank it, should be solid everywhere with depth

WEDNESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Dylan Sinn
🚨 Kyle Neddenriep
🚨 Rick Bozich
🔥 Langdon Hatton on visit in Bloomington #iubb
🔥 Pacers get embarrassed in game five #nbaplayoffs
🔥 Kel'el Ware & Zach Edey at the #nbacombine
🔥 #pgachampionship tees-off tomorrow

Audio - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is...an-sinn-kyle-neddenriep-rick-bozich--60045642

Are the answer the NY’s lifeguard shortage according to mayor Adams. 😂

I'm scared for her and my insurance.

She can't be any worse then her big sister.

Does it not seem that if the GOP could find a moderate/relatively media untouchable candidate for President— prop him/her up with the promise that Uncle Donald will be chosen as VP —.

Is this not enough to defeat any Dem push this fall with all their chips behind Biden??
Hard to see a loss there despite current legislative action etc. Who knows what becomes of current proceedings other than they want them to last as long as possible. Strong strategy by the left.

Seems easy to me.
And if they hate him or he steps on his crank—-marginalize him like every other VP ever.

Just second sting him.
It’s not hard— just get the office back.

All that comes with him can be then back burnered and just keep playing the game.

“They” will trip all over themselves to hype a “dangerous” VP card especially with a reasonable/relatable candidate.
BTW —- That card has never existed.

If you don’t think that people you have NEVER HEARD OF aren’t running the country CURRENTLY you are just simple.

So flip it……

But will the Big Boy play along?

A thought……

Just noticed on FB that walk-on JR and I share a birthday today. Of course, I've had many, many more trips around the sun. It's a little odd to me that he's been on 2 college teams in 2 years and hasn't seen a second of court time. Shoulder injury at Air Force. Was he injured all this year too? I remember him sitting next to Newton in street clothes a few times wearing the infamous IU boot.

he was fringe top 10, now down to 37, Dug McDaniel now rated ahead of him, hope he's better than Mcdaniel he never impressed me especially on road games

WEDNESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Dylan Sinn
🚨 Kyle Neddenriep
🚨 Rick Bozich
🔥 Langdon Hatton on visit in Bloomington #iubb
🔥 Pacers get embarrassed in game five #nbaplayoffs
🔥 Kel'el Ware & Zach Edey at the #nbacombine
🔥 #pgachampionship tees-off tomorrow

Audio - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is...an-sinn-kyle-neddenriep-rick-bozich--60045642

June and September.

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Kel'el Ware is doing work at the NBA Combine.

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It's going to be interesting to see where he ends up.

human beings 🤣🤣🤣

There was an item in the D1Baseball chat on 5/6 that I posted and it briefly addressed the ERAs rising in college baseball overall. I was wondering where the B1G stood in that area from 2023 to 2024 and I found that while there was a somewhat rise in the conference's overall ERA it wasn't that significant. The overall conference ERA in 2023 was an average of 5.67, while in 2024 with three games to go for each team, it is 5.90. There might be some jockeying around by teams in the overall ERA standings after the next three games, but I doubt it will move the needle much on the conference's overall ERA for this season. Here's how things went in that area for each team.

Iowa:

2023 (1st) - ERA of 4.19
2024 (8th) - ERA of 6.09

Rutgers:

2023 (2nd) - ERA of 4.55
2024 (5th) - ERA of 5.65

Nebraska:

2023 (3rd) - ERA of 4.64
2024 (1st) - ERA of 4.38

Indiana:

2023 (4th) - ERA of 5.27
2024 (10th) - ERA of 6.28

MSU:

2023 (5th) - ERA of 5.41
2024 11th) - ERA of 6.47

OSU:

2023 (6th) - ERA of 5.63
2024 (9th) - ERA of 6.15

Purdue:

2023 (7th) - ERA of 5.75
2024 (2nd) - ERA of 4.77

Michigan:

2023 (8th) - ERA of 5.85
2024 (6th) - ERA of 6.02

Illinois:

2023 (9th) - ERA of 5.86
2024 (7th) - ERA of 6.04

Maryland:

2023 (10th) - ERA of 5.97
2024 (4th) - ERA of 5.55

Minnesota:

2023 (11th) - ERA of 5.99
2024 (3rd) - ERA of 5.31

PSU:

2023 (12th) - ERA of 6.12
2024 (12th) - ERA of 6.90

Northwestern:

2023 (13th) - ERA of 8.53
2024 (13th) - ERA of 7.10

I have to say it’s a bit depressing reading this board lately. It’s springtime! Even with you heathens back in the Midwest should finally be celebrating! Get your winter white asses out in the sun and enjoy life a bit. Let go of the courtrooms, the war rooms, and the newsrooms and get your butts outside and enjoy! Listen to good music, drink good whiskey, and play some golf.

Out hustled, out rebounded, no toughness. Vastly undermanned Knicks team kicking tail. Halliburton disappeared.