OT: Indiana headed to CWS
Indiana completes their Super Regional sweep over the # 7 national seed Florida State Seminoles. FSU was 35-3 at home entering this super regional matchup.
Indiana will play the winner of Lousville and # 2 Vanderbilt in the opening game (Lousville won game 1 of the best of 3).
IU is the first B1G team to make the College World Series since Michigan did it in 1984. This is a pretty big achievement for the conference.
BIG TEHHNNNNN
Weather was not much of a factor for Kent State last year, who made the CWS.
That's quite a small sample size you're looking at.
It's actually a pretty large sample size. From 1985-2012 zero Big Ten teams, with athletic budgets about six times that of MAC programs (in 2010 OSU: $122 million, Kent: $20 million) made it to the College World Series.
The weather excuse is getting old. Big Ten programs could easily invest more into baseball but choose not to. Weather wasn't an excuse for Kent State last year. It wasn't an excuse for Stony Brook either. Stony Brook!
every big ten program has significantly upgraded their baseball facilities since 1984.
Weather is a HUGE factor for Northern programs. You get fewer days outside to even practice, you get terrible weather in your early games in April. Recruiting a top prospect to a Big Ten program is difficult because they'll get beat out by even lower level D1 programs in the South that simply offer better weather.
Now the Regional setup is totally different to the 80's and even 90's when teams were placed in regionals based mostly on geography.
The announcers said they have already beat Lousville this year. They may get a favorable draw in the CWS, if the bats stay hot, you never know.
everyone has at least the capacity to build indoor facilities for all sports, weather really isn't an excuse.
Go Hoosiers.
opened the door for northern - cold weather teams. They should believe they can compete at the highest level........Go Hoosiers
Glad to see the B1G represented. Hard to believe we haven't sent a team their since 1984!
and we (Valpo) had IU on the @#% ROPES
ROPEZ I TELL YOU