Iowa baseball scuffled to a 7-11 start to the season, mostly on the road and occasionally against top competition (six of Iowa's losses were against Missouri State, who is ranked in the Top 25, and Dallas Baptist, who is just outside the Top 25). Good news! 22 of Iowa's final 36 games are in the friendly confines of Duane Banks Field, where Iowa is 19-3 (including five walk-off wins, most recently over Bradley on Tuesday night) since the beginning of the 2015 season. Most of those remaining 36 games are against Big Ten competition (bar one weekend series against Kansas State and a handful of weekday games against Bradley, Northern Illinois, Milwaukee, Grand View, and the like), too, which is good news from a competitive standpoint since in the college baseball world, the Big Ten is a mid-major league.
IOWA VS MARYLAND PREVIEW + OPEN THREAD
