It is Purdue’s turn to have the week off from conference play. Since there are only 13 programs in Big Ten baseball there is at least one team off each week of conference play. Many programs try to schedule a home series during this time since, as northern schools, they start the season on the road for weeks. The improvement of the conference as a whole has led to some interesting matchups too, as some of our conference brethren have used their open weeks during league play to schedule some bigger names.
For example: Penn State has taken advantage of a similar quirk in the Pac-12 (only 11 Pac-12 schools have baseball, as Colorado has no program) to get Arizona to come to State College for their bye week this year.