While current Illinois football players go through their first spring practice Friday evening in Champaign, and a potential future Illini basketball player Jeremiah Tilmon plays in New York this afternoon, here’s five other UI sports to keep an eye on beginning Friday:
BASEBALL
Dan Hartleb’s team is coming off a dispiriting 5-4 loss at Indiana State on Tuesday, in which the game-winning run scored in the bottom of the ninth on a dropped third strike. Nebraska (17-7, 3-0 Big Ten) won’t feel sorry for the Illini (10-12), who make the trip out to the Cornhusker state after Darin Erstad’s team opened up Big Ten play last weekend with a sweep at Purdue.