The Nebraska baseball team welcomes the Illinois Illini to Hawks Field for a key Big Ten series. Nebraska sits in second place, just .017 percentage points behind Indiana coming into Friday’s games.
Illinois comes into the game on a hot streak, winning their last four games. Last weekend Illinois swept Penn State to get back to .500 in league play. The Illini only beat Penn State by a run in each of the three games of the series.
Nebraska will face a team with dangerous hitters. Grant Van Scoy and Zac Taylor both hit over .350. Michael Massey is another big bat who has batted .