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GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Purdue (6-4) at Indiana (6-3)
Wednesday, March 4 at 3 p.m. ET / BTN+
Bart Kaufman Field / Bloomington, Indiana
Probable Starting Pitchers: Andrew Bohm (R-Jr., RHP) vs. IU's McCade Brown (So., RHP)
SERIES HISTORY
All-Time: Indiana leads 152-134-2
All-Time in Bloomington: Indiana leads 85-52-1
2019: Indiana 7, Purdue 6 – 10 Innings (April 10 in Bloomington)
Purdue's Last Win: Purdue 5, Indiana 2 (April 25, 2018 in West Lafayette)
Purdue's Last Win in Bloomington: Purdue 4, Indiana 2 (April 6, 2018)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue baseball opens midweek play Wednesday with the first of four meetings this season vs. Indiana, with the longtime rivals squaring off in a non-conference weekday game for the third consecutive year.
First pitch at Bart Kaufman Field is slated for 3 p.m. ET. The Boilermakers are visiting Bloomington for the fifth consecutive year.
In the summer of 2017, former head coaches Mark Wasikowski (Purdue) and Chris Lemonis (Indiana) agreed to begin playing a non-conference midweek game to assure the teams would meet at least once every season. That came on the heels of there not being a traditional weekend series between the two rivals three times in four seasons from 2012 to 2015.
Wasikowski is now the head coach at Oregon and Lemonis at Mississippi State. Current skippers Greg Goff and Jeff Mercer agreed to extend the single-game midweek series. The team that hosts the weekend series, as Purdue does in May of this season, visits the other ballpark for the midweek date.
Aside from the six all-time meetings at the Big Ten Tournament, Purdue and Indiana had only squared off for Big Ten play since 1906. The Purdue-IU series on the baseball diamond dates back to 1888, but the programs were independents until 1906. Iowa and Minnesota also became Big Ten baseball members that year as the baseball standings expanded from four to eight universities.
The Hoosiers are scheduled to play 18 of their next 19 games at home, hosting San Diego, Memphis, Illinois State and Ohio State each of the next four weekends.
Meanwhile, Wednesday's game is believed to be Purdue's third-earliest in-state game in program history. Twenty years ago, the Boilermakers were able to play games in Evansville in the final days of February. Purdue returns to Evansville next weekend, its first trip to the southwest corner of the state since 2013.
The leap year day games against the Purple Aces early in the 2000 campaign also marked the earliest the Boilermakers have ever opened midweek play.
NOTABLES
• Purdue went 7-5 in midweek action last season, winning its final four games after falling to Indiana in 10 innings on April 10 in Bloomington.
• The Boilermakers racked up a program-record 18 strikeouts over 9 1/3 innings in that back and forth affair. Current pitchers James Kulak (6), Bo Hofstra, Matt Moore (3) and Trent Johnson (2) all contributed to the strikeouts record. The Hoosiers led the Big Ten in Ks at the plate (611) last season, setting an NCAA record in the process, but also led the league with 90 home runs while winning the conference title.
• Purdue and Indiana both won tournaments with 3-0 showings during the second weekend of this season. The Boilermakers defeated Campbell, Maine and Villanova to win the Campbell Invitational in Buies Creek, North Carolina. The Hoosiers beat Tennessee-Martin, South Alabama and Siena to win South Alabama's tournament that same weekend in Mobile. The common element was elite pitching and defense. Both teams surrendered only seven runs over the three games.
• Both teams got burned by rough seventh innings while falling to top-25 opponents in neutral-site games Sunday. Purdue gave up three in seventh and went on to lose to No. 23 North Carolina 6-5 in 10 innings at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. No. 13 Ole Miss scored four in the seventh to break a 5-5 tie in the championship game of East Carolina's Keith LeClair Classic. Ole Miss scored all four runs with two outs.
• Indiana is slated to start the same right-hander against Purdue for the second year in a row. McCade Brown was unable to retire any of the five batters he faced – walking four – as the Boilermakers scored two in the first inning. It was his final appearance of the campaign. But he's back in good graces this season, striking out a pair in an inning of relief to help IU defeat both LSU and South Alabama. Ole Miss got him in the seventh inning Sunday though.
SERIES TRENDS
• Location has played a big factor in the Indiana-Purdue rivalry in recent years. The Boilermakers won their final series at IU's Sembower Field in May 2010, but are 1-11 in Bloomington since Bart Kaufman Field opened in 2013. That mark includes losses to Nebraska and Maryland at the 2017 Big Ten Tournament.
• Purdue has won 12 of last 15 meetings with IU away from Bloomington dating back to the 2008 Big Ten Tournament in Ann Arbor. Since the final day of the 2004 regular season, the Boilermakers are 17-4 against the Hoosiers in games played outside of Bloomington. But since 2008, IU is 13-4 against Purdue at home.
• Six of the last seven rivalry games in Bloomington dating back to 2016 have been either one-run affairs or decided in the ninth/extra innings. The only non-qualifier during that stretch was IU's 14-1 victory in game 2 of the April 2018 series. Purdue had won the previous day with two runs in the ninth inning. The rubber game went 13 innings, with the Hoosiers winning on a walk-off home run.
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Purdue (6-4) at Indiana (6-3)
Wednesday, March 4 at 3 p.m. ET / BTN+
Bart Kaufman Field / Bloomington, Indiana
Probable Starting Pitchers: Andrew Bohm (R-Jr., RHP) vs. IU's McCade Brown (So., RHP)
SERIES HISTORY
All-Time: Indiana leads 152-134-2
All-Time in Bloomington: Indiana leads 85-52-1
2019: Indiana 7, Purdue 6 – 10 Innings (April 10 in Bloomington)
Purdue's Last Win: Purdue 5, Indiana 2 (April 25, 2018 in West Lafayette)
Purdue's Last Win in Bloomington: Purdue 4, Indiana 2 (April 6, 2018)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue baseball opens midweek play Wednesday with the first of four meetings this season vs. Indiana, with the longtime rivals squaring off in a non-conference weekday game for the third consecutive year.
First pitch at Bart Kaufman Field is slated for 3 p.m. ET. The Boilermakers are visiting Bloomington for the fifth consecutive year.
In the summer of 2017, former head coaches Mark Wasikowski (Purdue) and Chris Lemonis (Indiana) agreed to begin playing a non-conference midweek game to assure the teams would meet at least once every season. That came on the heels of there not being a traditional weekend series between the two rivals three times in four seasons from 2012 to 2015.
Wasikowski is now the head coach at Oregon and Lemonis at Mississippi State. Current skippers Greg Goff and Jeff Mercer agreed to extend the single-game midweek series. The team that hosts the weekend series, as Purdue does in May of this season, visits the other ballpark for the midweek date.
Aside from the six all-time meetings at the Big Ten Tournament, Purdue and Indiana had only squared off for Big Ten play since 1906. The Purdue-IU series on the baseball diamond dates back to 1888, but the programs were independents until 1906. Iowa and Minnesota also became Big Ten baseball members that year as the baseball standings expanded from four to eight universities.
The Hoosiers are scheduled to play 18 of their next 19 games at home, hosting San Diego, Memphis, Illinois State and Ohio State each of the next four weekends.
Meanwhile, Wednesday's game is believed to be Purdue's third-earliest in-state game in program history. Twenty years ago, the Boilermakers were able to play games in Evansville in the final days of February. Purdue returns to Evansville next weekend, its first trip to the southwest corner of the state since 2013.
The leap year day games against the Purple Aces early in the 2000 campaign also marked the earliest the Boilermakers have ever opened midweek play.
| EARLIEST IN-STATE GAMES | ||||
| Year | Date | Opponent | Location | Result(s) |
| 1998 | Feb. 27 | Valparaiso | Evansville | W, 10-4 |
| 2000 | Feb. 29 | Evansville | Evansville | W, 8-3 |
| 2020 | March 4 | Indiana | Bloomington | TBD |
| 2009 | March 11 | Butler | Indianapolis | W, 12-3 |
| 2019 | March 12 | Milwaukee | West Lafayette | L, 6-1 |
| 2010 | March 12 | LeMoyne | Evansville | W, 3-0 |
| 1996 | March 13 | Saint Joseph's (Ind.) | West Lafayette | L, 7-0 |
| 2009 | March 13 | Mississippi Valley St. | Evansville | W, 4-1 |
| 2015 | March 14 | Northern Illinois | Westfield | L, 4-1 & W, 10-2 |
| 2009 | March 14 | Evansville | Evansville | W, 3-1 |
NOTABLES
• Purdue went 7-5 in midweek action last season, winning its final four games after falling to Indiana in 10 innings on April 10 in Bloomington.
• The Boilermakers racked up a program-record 18 strikeouts over 9 1/3 innings in that back and forth affair. Current pitchers James Kulak (6), Bo Hofstra, Matt Moore (3) and Trent Johnson (2) all contributed to the strikeouts record. The Hoosiers led the Big Ten in Ks at the plate (611) last season, setting an NCAA record in the process, but also led the league with 90 home runs while winning the conference title.
• Purdue and Indiana both won tournaments with 3-0 showings during the second weekend of this season. The Boilermakers defeated Campbell, Maine and Villanova to win the Campbell Invitational in Buies Creek, North Carolina. The Hoosiers beat Tennessee-Martin, South Alabama and Siena to win South Alabama's tournament that same weekend in Mobile. The common element was elite pitching and defense. Both teams surrendered only seven runs over the three games.
• Both teams got burned by rough seventh innings while falling to top-25 opponents in neutral-site games Sunday. Purdue gave up three in seventh and went on to lose to No. 23 North Carolina 6-5 in 10 innings at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. No. 13 Ole Miss scored four in the seventh to break a 5-5 tie in the championship game of East Carolina's Keith LeClair Classic. Ole Miss scored all four runs with two outs.
• Indiana is slated to start the same right-hander against Purdue for the second year in a row. McCade Brown was unable to retire any of the five batters he faced – walking four – as the Boilermakers scored two in the first inning. It was his final appearance of the campaign. But he's back in good graces this season, striking out a pair in an inning of relief to help IU defeat both LSU and South Alabama. Ole Miss got him in the seventh inning Sunday though.
SERIES TRENDS
• Location has played a big factor in the Indiana-Purdue rivalry in recent years. The Boilermakers won their final series at IU's Sembower Field in May 2010, but are 1-11 in Bloomington since Bart Kaufman Field opened in 2013. That mark includes losses to Nebraska and Maryland at the 2017 Big Ten Tournament.
• Purdue has won 12 of last 15 meetings with IU away from Bloomington dating back to the 2008 Big Ten Tournament in Ann Arbor. Since the final day of the 2004 regular season, the Boilermakers are 17-4 against the Hoosiers in games played outside of Bloomington. But since 2008, IU is 13-4 against Purdue at home.
• Six of the last seven rivalry games in Bloomington dating back to 2016 have been either one-run affairs or decided in the ninth/extra innings. The only non-qualifier during that stretch was IU's 14-1 victory in game 2 of the April 2018 series. Purdue had won the previous day with two runs in the ninth inning. The rubber game went 13 innings, with the Hoosiers winning on a walk-off home run.