For 13 consecutive summers from 2007 through 2019, Indiana had at least one player picked in the annual Major League Baseball Draft. With the event cut to five rounds last June amid the COVID-19 pandemic, IU saw its streak come to an end.
But with Colorado’s selection of right-hander McCade Brown on Tuesday afternoon, the Hoosiers are poised to start a new run of fortune over the years to come. Brown, a 6-foot-6 rising junior, earned second-team All-Big Ten honors for the Hoosiers this spring, striking out 97 batters over 61 innings, holding hitting to a .164 average and working to a 3.