With last-place Minnesota in town, Indiana needed a three-game sweep — for positioning, for pride, for a lot of reasons.
After three convincing finishes at Bart Kaufman Field, a weekend sweep of the Golden Gophers is exactly what the Hoosiers got. IU took the series with a 9-3 win in Game 1 of Friday’s doubleheader, a 7-1 victory in Game 2, and a no-doubt-about-it, 23-1 triumph in the finale.
Here are Three Things:
Oh my god, the offense
That Sunday score catches your eye, doesn’t it? Well, it should. The Hoosiers’ 23 runs were their most since piling 27 against Butler on March 23, 2016.