• For the sixth time in seven years, Indiana will be playing in the NCAA Tournament, as it was selected to the Louisville Regional. The No. 2-seeded Hoosiers will face Illinois State on Friday at 2 p.m.
• Friday will be the sixth ever meeting between IU and Illinois State, as the Hoosiers defeated the Redbirds in the last matchup on March 4, 2016, 14-1.
• Indiana leads the all-time series between the two schools, 3-2
• This will be Indiana's ninth NCAA tournament appearance (1949, 1996, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019). Head coach Jeff Mercer joins Ernie Andres (1949) and Chris Lemonis (2015) as the three, first-year head coaches in program history to make an NCAA Regional.