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IUHoosiers.com

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana's host Hoosiers, for much of Saturday afternoon, looked dead.

But they still had The Baddest Man Alive.

Matt Lloyd crushed a full-count pitch with two out in the bottom of the ninth for the three-run homer that hoisted the Hoosiers to an unlikely 7-6 win over Minnesota, capping a comeback from a 6-1 deficit.

"Top of the world," was how Lloyd described the feeling he had running the bases after his majestic clout cascaded high over the right field wall.

IU coach Jeff Mercer, while exiting the Hoosiers' indoor batting cage facility where Lloyd was meeting the media, called back over his shoulder, "Matt Lloyd is the baddest man alive.