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Pair of Indiana baseball standouts land on Knoxville Regional All-Tournament Team

A pair of Indiana baseball players earned All-Regional honors following their play in the Knoxville Regional.

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A pair of Indiana baseball players earned All-Regional honors following their play in the Knoxville Regional. (Indiana Athletics)

It was a disappointing end to the 2024 season for Indiana baseball as it bowed out of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday after losing two-straight to No. 1 Tennessee and then Southern Miss. While the Hoosiers enter offseason mode, it was still a time to celebrate two players as a pair of Indiana standouts were named to their all-regional team.

Indiana’s duo of Devin Taylor and Brock Tibbitts were named to the Knoxville Regional All-Tournament Team following its three-game stint.

Taylor, Indiana’s sophomore sensation, hit .454 (5-of-11) with five RBIs and two home runs in the regional. Tibbitts hit .357 (5-of-14) with four RBIs and one home run.

On the season, Taylor repeated as a First-Team All-Big Ten selection after hitting .357 with 20 home runs and 54 RBIs. He finished with 86 hits and 37 walks as well. He became the first player in Indiana baseball program history to earn First-Team All-Big Ten selections in his first two years of college baseball.

Tibbitts, who has been one of the most consistent members in Indiana baseball history, became the 25th player to join the 200-hit club in a career in IU history. He hit .313 this year with four home runs and 43 RBIs. He 55 hits this season and 21 walks.

Both players had a hit in all three Regional games this past weekend.

“I remember talking to Brock (Tibbitts) a ton. I remember talking to Devin (Taylor) in the hitting facility, some of those late conversations about what it was going to take for us to get back up off our backside and really compete and make a run in doing that,” Indiana baseball head coach Jeff Mercer said following IU’s season-ending loss. ” … I know it didn’t go our way. Sometimes, and I guess not sometimes, the best things in life are the hardest things. When you look at how hard it was at times and how we persevered through those things, that’s what I’ll remember the most.”

Indiana baseball ended the season 33-26-1 and 15-9 in Big Ten play.

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