Indiana baseball bows out of Big Ten Tournament, await NCAA seeding

The Indiana baseball program now waits. Following back-to-back losses in the Big Ten Tournament, the Hoosiers are now in wait-and-see mode until the NCAA Selection.

The NCAA will announce the tournament field on Monday but until then, Indiana will have a few days to prepare to hear its name called.

As of Sunday, the Indiana baseball program is slated to be in the tournament field. It is projected as a 3-seed in the Terre Haute region. The Hoosiers would play Tennessee in the first round.

The 1-seed in that region is Indiana State while the 4-seed is Wright State.

The Hoosiers finished the season 41-18 overall and 16-8 in the Big Ten. Going into the last weekend of the regular season, Indiana was tied atop the Big Ten. After a bit of a slip up, it finished second in the conference.

It was the first time since 2013 that Indiana reached 40 wins in the regular season and first since 2018 to hit the mark at all.

It was the ninth time in Indiana baseball program history to hit the 40-win mark.

“We’ve done the things we needed to do,” IU head coach Jeff Mercer said heading into the Big Ten Tournament. “We control our own destiny. We put ourselves in position to play in the (NCAA tourney).”

The Hoosiers won their first matchup in the Big Ten Tournament against Illinois before falling to Iowa and Michigan to bow out.

This year will be the first NCAA Tournament since 2019 for the Hoosiers.

SEE ALSO: Indiana Baseball: Devin Taylor highlights All-Big Ten awards for Hoosiers, six total honored

Make sure to follow Hoosier Illustrated on Twitter @Indiana_FRN and YouTube to stay up to date on all of the news, updates and coverage of Indiana University athletics.