The Iowa baseball team is fresh off winning a huge series last weekend against then ranked number 18 UC Irvine. That was good enough for Iowa to appear at number 24 in the Top 25 rankings released earlier this week.
Iowa has an overall record of 29-17 and 11-7 in the Big Ten but will be facing a bad Michigan State team this weekend that enters with an overall record of just 11-30 and 5-12 in the Big Ten. It has all the makings of a let-down series after playing at such a high level last weekend against a really good opponent.