The Iowa baseball team opens up the 2018 season this Friday when they travel to Kissimmee, FL to participate in the Diamond 9 Sunshine State Classic Series. After completing arguably the most successful season in program history - one in which the Hawkeyes won 39 games, won the Big Ten Tournament for the first time, and went to NCAA Regionals - Iowa looks to recapture some of that magic despite being without many key cogs from that 2017 team.
Our first 2018 baseball preview will not look at the team itself, but instead their schedule this season. Will this year’s team face a more daunting task than they did in 2017, where they ended the season with an RPI of 80?