Michigan Baseball: Sweeping Northwestern
Michigan baseball is very close to sweeping Northwestern this weekend, up 14-5 in the 8th.
With the win, they will have won 4 in a row, and would be tied with Rutgers and Nebraska for 4th in the B1G (13-8). Pretty nice first season for Tracy Smith. Season ends next weekend in Columbus.
Ball out, boys!
Thanks for the update!
First hit of the season: Kilinski home run!
Thanks for the reminder that the game's on.
15-5! Go, Blue!
Jefferis hits for the cycle!
Sweep
Great weekend for Michigan athletics
Hello 4 star 2024 PG durrell brooks from GR . Won’t let me do hello post
probably because we already have six
Michigan has clinched a spot in the Big Ten Tournament (top 8 qualify) to be held in Omaha on May 23-28. The worst Michigan can do in the regular season is 8th, the best they can do is technically 1st.
Every team (except Illinois) has 3 games left.
1t. Maryland (15-6)
1t. Indiana (15-6)
3. Iowa (13-7)
4t. Rutgers (13-8)
4t. Nebraska (13-8)
4t. Michigan (13-8)
7. Illinois (12-12)
8t. Michigan State (10-11)
8t. Purdue (10-11)
10. Minnesota (8-13)
11. Penn State (6-14)
12. Ohio State (6-15)
13. Northwestern (3-18)
This week's games: Ind at MSU, RU at Minn, Iowa at NW, Mich at OSU, Md at PSU, Neb at PU.
It looks like both Purdue and MSU could possibly catch UM at 13-11, creating a 3-way tie for 8th place. Not sure how tiebreakers work, but it seems like UM hasn't clinched yet.
A UM win or losses by both Purdue and MSU would do it.
That would be a 3-way tie for 6th. Illinois is off this weekend, and Michigan (13-11 at the worst) will finish ahead of Illinois (12-12) even if Michigan gets swept.
So Michigan is guaranteed to finish ahead of Illinois, Minnesota, Penn State, Ohio State and Northwestern--even if Michigan loses the tiebreaker (and I think they do), they finish 8th.
Illinois isn’t playing so Purdue and MSU would jump them but Michigan can’t fall below Illinois. Putting three teams in a tie for 6th and all getting in while Illinois drops to 9th
Nice--finish strong, Wolverines! A nice B1G tourney run would do wonders for the program.
