In just six days the NCAA will announce the field of 64 for the baseball tournament and Purdue appears to be in good shape after sweeping Michigan this past weekend. For the first time all year the Boilers are projected as “in” according to several sites that do projections. They are still near the tail end of at large teams, but when your program has only been to two tournaments ever you take it.
First, let’s look at D1baseball.com, which is probably the top site out there for projections. They currently have Purdue not only in the field, but above the dreaded “Last five in”:
We have just one change to our at-large teams from last week: Purdue joins our field after sweeping Michigan to finish second in the Big Ten, squeezing out Louisiana Tech, which tumbled 12 spots to No.