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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Headlined by more home dates than road games in April and consecutive home weekends in May, Purdue baseball's 2020 schedule features 23 total home games at Alexander Field.
New head coach Greg Goff has unveiled a slate that again features five home weekends, including a non-conference series vs. Samford as part of an eight-game homestand from April 10 to 21. Illinois (March 27-29), Nebraska (April 10-12), Maryland (May 1-3) and Indiana (May 8-10) also visit Alexander Field for Big Ten weekends.
The Indiana series marks the Boilermakers' final home weekend. It will be just IU's second trip to Alexander for a weekend series in the ballpark's eight-year history. The May 8 to 10 dates will mark the latest in the regular season the two rivals have squared off since 2005 (May 20-22).
Purdue opens Big Ten play with its first trip to Ann Arbor since April 2015. As the national runner-up last season, Michigan represents the Boilermakers' sixth opponent since 2014 that qualified for the College World Series the year prior. However, a March 2005 series at Texas marked the last time Purdue played the national runner-up from the previous year.
A full list of gameday promotions and special dates at Alexander Field will be released in February or early March.
TWO TRIPS TO THE TWIN CITIES
• The Boilermakers will join host Minnesota and Iowa in representing the Big Ten vs. the Atlantic Coast Conference at an indoor tournament in Minneapolis (Feb. 28-March 1). It's their first of two trip to the Twin Cities. Duke, North Carolina and N.C. State will represent the ACC, all qualifying for NCAA Regionals in 2019. The nine-game Dairy Queen Challenge tournament will be played at U.S. Bank Stadium, the home of the Minnesota Vikings.
• Purdue has not played an indoor game since its last visit to the Metrodome in April 2009. The Boilermakers were scheduled to open the 2011 Big Ten season inside the Metrodome, but the series vs. the Gophers was moved to Target Field after the dome collapsed due to a blizzard in December 2010. Minnesota was unable to host its indoor tournament in 2019 due to the NCAA Men's Final Four being held at U.S. Bank Stadium in early April. Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan State went a combined 5-4 vs. the Pac-12 trio of Arizona, UCLA and Washington in the 2018 edition of the tournament.
OPENERS ON HOLIDAYS, HELLO WISCONSIN
• Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day are notable dates during the 2020 campaign. Feb. 14 is the national opening day of the college baseball season, with the Boilermakers taking on first-time opponent Hofstra for a season-opening series in Sanford, Florida. The home opener is on March 17. Milwaukee will be the opponent for the home opener for the second year in a row.
• Purdue will play a home-and-home midweek series with Milwaukee this season. The May 12 midweek finale near the lakefront will be the program's first game in the state of Wisconsin since May 1991.
THIRTY GAMES IN INDIANA
• The Boilermakers are scheduled to play 30 of their 56 regular-season games (54%) in the state of Indiana. Along with their 23 home dates, Purdue is scheduled to visit Bloomington (March 4), Evansville (March 13-15), Terre Haute (March 25), Muncie (April 7) and Indianapolis (April 22).
• The Boilermakers will play home-and-home midweek series with familiar foes Ball State, Butler and Indiana State.
• The April 22 Purdue-Butler game in Indianapolis will be played downtown at Victory Field, the home of the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians and the IHSAA state finals. The Boilermakers have not played at Victory Field since April 2012.
• The midweek opener will actually be Purdue's first action of the season against a Big Ten rival. For the third year in a row, the Boilermakers and Hoosiers will square off in a midweek non-conference game. The March 4 matchup will be played on the artificial turf in Bloomington, weather permitting.
GOFF, MARX RETURN TO CAMPBELL
• The Boilermakers are scheduled to make their first-ever trip to Buies Creek, North Carolina, for the four-team Campbell Invitational the weekend of Feb. 21 to 23. Purdue will play Campbell, Maine and Villanova at the tournament. Goff served as the head coach of the Camels from 2008 to 2014 and first-year pitching coach Chris Marx joined Purdue after five seasons as an assistant at Campbell.
SCHREIBER RETURNS TO ALEXANDER
• The annual midweek game vs. Purdue Fort Wayne, set for March 24, takes on a higher profile this season because it will feature the return of all-time wins leader Doug Schreiber. The Purdue alumnus was hired as the head coach of the Mastodons in July. Schreiber was a four-year starting second baseman for the Boilermakers in the 1980s and led the program to 485 wins as head coach from 1999 to 2016.
SCHEDULE BREAKDOWN
• Home Games: 23 (7 in March, 10 in April, 6 in May)
• Road Games: 23 (1 in February, 11 in March, 7 in April, 4 in May)
• Neutral Site Games: 10 (8 in February, 1 in March, 1 in April)
• Big Ten Home: Illinois, Nebraska, Maryland, Indiana
• Big Ten Road: Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan State
• Big Ten Non-Play: Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers
• Big Ten Tournament: May 20 to 24 (TD Ameritrade Park – Omaha, Nebraska)
• Season-Opening Series: vs. Hofstra (4 Games in Sanford, Fla.)
• Home Opener: St. Patrick's Day vs. Milwaukee
• Non-Conference Tournaments: Campbell Invitational, Dairy Queen Classic (at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis)
• Opponents at Tournaments: Campbell, Maine, Villanova; Duke, North Carolina, N.C. State
• Two Trips to Minneapolis: Feb. 28 to March 1 (Indoors), April 24 to 26 (Outdoors)
• Non-Conference vs. Indiana: March 4 in Bloomington
• Return to Victory Field in Indianapolis: April 22 vs. Butler
• Spring Break: 3-game series at Evansville, back home for 2 midweek games, 3-game series at Michigan
• Home-and-Home Midweek Dates: Ball State, Butler, Indiana State, Milwaukee
• Remainder of the Midweek Slate: Indiana, Iona, Valparaiso, Purdue Fort Wayne, Chicago State
• 8-Game Homestand: April 10 to 21 vs. Nebraska (3), Butler, Samford (3), Ball State
• 7-Game Homestand: April 28 to May 10 vs. Chicago State, Maryland (3), Indiana (3)
• 2019 NCAA Tournament Qualifiers: Campbell, Duke, North Carolina, N.C. State, Indiana, Michigan, Indiana State, Illinois, Nebraska
• First-Time Foes: Hofstra, Campbell
• First-Time Visitors to Alexander: Iona, Samford
• Been a While: There are six opponents on the schedule that Purdue has not played in at least 12 years – N.C. State (1987), Maine (1991), Iona (1999), Duke (2000), North Carolina (2006), Western Kentucky (2008).
• Purdue has not played at Michigan (April 17-18) or Michigan State (May 1-3) since 2015
• Maryland has not played at Alexander Field since April 2015
• Last time Purdue played the national runner-up from previous season: Texas in 2005 (Michigan in 2020)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Headlined by more home dates than road games in April and consecutive home weekends in May, Purdue baseball's 2020 schedule features 23 total home games at Alexander Field.
New head coach Greg Goff has unveiled a slate that again features five home weekends, including a non-conference series vs. Samford as part of an eight-game homestand from April 10 to 21. Illinois (March 27-29), Nebraska (April 10-12), Maryland (May 1-3) and Indiana (May 8-10) also visit Alexander Field for Big Ten weekends.
The Indiana series marks the Boilermakers' final home weekend. It will be just IU's second trip to Alexander for a weekend series in the ballpark's eight-year history. The May 8 to 10 dates will mark the latest in the regular season the two rivals have squared off since 2005 (May 20-22).
Purdue opens Big Ten play with its first trip to Ann Arbor since April 2015. As the national runner-up last season, Michigan represents the Boilermakers' sixth opponent since 2014 that qualified for the College World Series the year prior. However, a March 2005 series at Texas marked the last time Purdue played the national runner-up from the previous year.
A full list of gameday promotions and special dates at Alexander Field will be released in February or early March.
TWO TRIPS TO THE TWIN CITIES
• The Boilermakers will join host Minnesota and Iowa in representing the Big Ten vs. the Atlantic Coast Conference at an indoor tournament in Minneapolis (Feb. 28-March 1). It's their first of two trip to the Twin Cities. Duke, North Carolina and N.C. State will represent the ACC, all qualifying for NCAA Regionals in 2019. The nine-game Dairy Queen Challenge tournament will be played at U.S. Bank Stadium, the home of the Minnesota Vikings.
• Purdue has not played an indoor game since its last visit to the Metrodome in April 2009. The Boilermakers were scheduled to open the 2011 Big Ten season inside the Metrodome, but the series vs. the Gophers was moved to Target Field after the dome collapsed due to a blizzard in December 2010. Minnesota was unable to host its indoor tournament in 2019 due to the NCAA Men's Final Four being held at U.S. Bank Stadium in early April. Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan State went a combined 5-4 vs. the Pac-12 trio of Arizona, UCLA and Washington in the 2018 edition of the tournament.
OPENERS ON HOLIDAYS, HELLO WISCONSIN
• Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day are notable dates during the 2020 campaign. Feb. 14 is the national opening day of the college baseball season, with the Boilermakers taking on first-time opponent Hofstra for a season-opening series in Sanford, Florida. The home opener is on March 17. Milwaukee will be the opponent for the home opener for the second year in a row.
• Purdue will play a home-and-home midweek series with Milwaukee this season. The May 12 midweek finale near the lakefront will be the program's first game in the state of Wisconsin since May 1991.
THIRTY GAMES IN INDIANA
• The Boilermakers are scheduled to play 30 of their 56 regular-season games (54%) in the state of Indiana. Along with their 23 home dates, Purdue is scheduled to visit Bloomington (March 4), Evansville (March 13-15), Terre Haute (March 25), Muncie (April 7) and Indianapolis (April 22).
• The Boilermakers will play home-and-home midweek series with familiar foes Ball State, Butler and Indiana State.
• The April 22 Purdue-Butler game in Indianapolis will be played downtown at Victory Field, the home of the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians and the IHSAA state finals. The Boilermakers have not played at Victory Field since April 2012.
• The midweek opener will actually be Purdue's first action of the season against a Big Ten rival. For the third year in a row, the Boilermakers and Hoosiers will square off in a midweek non-conference game. The March 4 matchup will be played on the artificial turf in Bloomington, weather permitting.
GOFF, MARX RETURN TO CAMPBELL
• The Boilermakers are scheduled to make their first-ever trip to Buies Creek, North Carolina, for the four-team Campbell Invitational the weekend of Feb. 21 to 23. Purdue will play Campbell, Maine and Villanova at the tournament. Goff served as the head coach of the Camels from 2008 to 2014 and first-year pitching coach Chris Marx joined Purdue after five seasons as an assistant at Campbell.
SCHREIBER RETURNS TO ALEXANDER
• The annual midweek game vs. Purdue Fort Wayne, set for March 24, takes on a higher profile this season because it will feature the return of all-time wins leader Doug Schreiber. The Purdue alumnus was hired as the head coach of the Mastodons in July. Schreiber was a four-year starting second baseman for the Boilermakers in the 1980s and led the program to 485 wins as head coach from 1999 to 2016.
SCHEDULE BREAKDOWN
• Home Games: 23 (7 in March, 10 in April, 6 in May)
• Road Games: 23 (1 in February, 11 in March, 7 in April, 4 in May)
• Neutral Site Games: 10 (8 in February, 1 in March, 1 in April)
• Big Ten Home: Illinois, Nebraska, Maryland, Indiana
• Big Ten Road: Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan State
• Big Ten Non-Play: Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers
• Big Ten Tournament: May 20 to 24 (TD Ameritrade Park – Omaha, Nebraska)
• Season-Opening Series: vs. Hofstra (4 Games in Sanford, Fla.)
• Home Opener: St. Patrick's Day vs. Milwaukee
• Non-Conference Tournaments: Campbell Invitational, Dairy Queen Classic (at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis)
• Opponents at Tournaments: Campbell, Maine, Villanova; Duke, North Carolina, N.C. State
• Two Trips to Minneapolis: Feb. 28 to March 1 (Indoors), April 24 to 26 (Outdoors)
• Non-Conference vs. Indiana: March 4 in Bloomington
• Return to Victory Field in Indianapolis: April 22 vs. Butler
• Spring Break: 3-game series at Evansville, back home for 2 midweek games, 3-game series at Michigan
• Home-and-Home Midweek Dates: Ball State, Butler, Indiana State, Milwaukee
• Remainder of the Midweek Slate: Indiana, Iona, Valparaiso, Purdue Fort Wayne, Chicago State
• 8-Game Homestand: April 10 to 21 vs. Nebraska (3), Butler, Samford (3), Ball State
• 7-Game Homestand: April 28 to May 10 vs. Chicago State, Maryland (3), Indiana (3)
• 2019 NCAA Tournament Qualifiers: Campbell, Duke, North Carolina, N.C. State, Indiana, Michigan, Indiana State, Illinois, Nebraska
• First-Time Foes: Hofstra, Campbell
• First-Time Visitors to Alexander: Iona, Samford
• Been a While: There are six opponents on the schedule that Purdue has not played in at least 12 years – N.C. State (1987), Maine (1991), Iona (1999), Duke (2000), North Carolina (2006), Western Kentucky (2008).
• Purdue has not played at Michigan (April 17-18) or Michigan State (May 1-3) since 2015
• Maryland has not played at Alexander Field since April 2015
• Last time Purdue played the national runner-up from previous season: Texas in 2005 (Michigan in 2020)