• Nineteenth-ranked Indiana (37-15, 14-9) opens Big Ten Tournament action on Wednesday as the No. 5 seed at 10 p.m. ET against the fourth-seeded Illinois Fighting Illini.
• Wednesday will be the 196th ever meeting between IU and Illinois. The two squads last met in Bloomington earlier this season, with the Hoosiers winning the series 2-1 in Bloomington.
• Illinois leads the all-time series between the two schools, 113-81-1.
• Indiana Head Coach Chris Lemonis is in his fourth season leading the Hoosier baseball program
and his 24th overall year in coaching.