Good day to take a Gatorade shower. Indiana baseball coach Jeff Mercer got one of those – perhaps the first of many – as his debut regular-season campaign at the Hoosier helm culminated with a 13-3 romp over Rutgers to secure a Big Ten title. Mercer, who after a stellar stint at Wright State replaced Chris Lemonis at IU after the 2018 season, said he was grateful for a Hoosier team open-minded and mature enough to handle the transition to a very new coaching approach.
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**Indiana will open with Iowa in the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET**
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The thermostat climbed past 90 degrees for the first time in a long while here Saturday afternoon.