The beginning of this Indiana baseball season seemed sullied with squandered opportunities. A tough loss to lowly Memphis on the opening weekend, a sweep at the hands of the Tennessee Volunteers, and late blown chances against quality opponents in Coastal Carolina, Oregon State, and San Diego.
As it turns out, Tennessee is awfully good—currently ninth in the RPI—and a couple local opponents, Indiana State and Evansville, would provide Indiana with unexpected opportunities to pick up good RPI wins.
Now with just 19 games and a little less than one month remaining in the regular season, the Hoosiers find themselves in second in the Big Ten standings—a game-and-a-half behind Nebraska as the Huskers have played and won three more conference games than Indiana—and in the RPI Top-25 as well.