A dismal and brutal season comes to an end this weekend at Alexander Field.
With Wisconsin not having a baseball program it means one Big Ten team each week has to seek out a non-conference series. Naturally, they often seek to get these series at home since most programs have to play on the road for 3-4 weeks to start the season. This season alone saw the Big Ten raise its overall profile as Northwestern hosted California, Michigan went to Oklahoma State, Cal State Fullerton hosted Indiana and Maryland, and Michigan State hosted Oregon.
Purdue got the final Big Ten bye, and given that it is well out of the conference race this weekend marks the final games of the 2016 season.