2014 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team
The 2014 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team is a college baseball team that represented Indiana University in the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Hoosiers are members of the Big Ten Conference (B1G) and played their home games at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington, Indiana. They were led by ninth-year head coach Tracy Smith.
| 2014 Indiana Hoosiers baseball | |
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Big Ten Regular Season Champions Big Ten Conference Tournament Champions | |
Bloomington Regional, L 4-5 vs. Stanford | |
| Conference | Big Ten Conference |
| 2014 record | 44-15 (21-3 Big Ten) |
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| Home stadium | Bart Kaufman Field (Capacity: 2,500) |
| 2014 Big Ten Conference baseball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | T | PCT | W | L | T | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 8 Indiana †‡y | 21 | – | 3 | – | 0 | .875 | 42 | – | 13 | – | 0 | .764 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 26 Nebraska y | 18 | – | 6 | – | 0 | .750 | 40 | – | 19 | – | 0 | .678 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Illinois | 17 | – | 7 | – | 0 | .708 | 32 | – | 21 | – | 0 | .604 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minnesota | 13 | – | 11 | – | 0 | .542 | 27 | – | 24 | – | 0 | .529 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan | 13 | – | 11 | – | 0 | .542 | 30 | – | 29 | – | 1 | .508 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 11 | – | 13 | – | 0 | .458 | 31 | – | 26 | – | 0 | .544 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 10 | – | 14 | – | 0 | .417 | 30 | – | 23 | – | 0 | .566 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 10 | – | 14 | – | 0 | .417 | 30 | – | 28 | – | 0 | .517 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern | 7 | – | 16 | – | 0 | .304 | 19 | – | 33 | – | 0 | .365 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Purdue | 6 | – | 18 | – | 0 | .250 | 13 | – | 37 | – | 0 | .260 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 5 | – | 18 | – | 0 | .217 | 18 | – | 32 | – | 0 | .360 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of May 25, 2014[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Following the conclusion of the regular season, the Hoosiers were selected to play in the 2014 NCAA Tournament, they would host the Bloomington Regional for the second consecutive year. Indiana would win the first two games to advance to the regional final where they would meet the Stanford Cardinal, the Hoosiers would lose back to back games and be eliminated from the Bloomington Regional by Stanford by a score of 4-5 in the final game.[2]
Previous season
The Hoosiers finished the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball season 49–16 overall (17-7 conference) and first place in conference standings. The Hoosiers were selected to play in the 2013 NCAA Tournament, beginning by hosting the Bloomington Regional. The Hoosiers swept the Bloomington Regional with three straight wins to advance to their first-ever Super Regional. The Hoosiers would travel to Tallahassee to play Florida State in the Tallahassee Super Regional. Indiana would win the first two games to clinch their first-ever birth to the College World Series in Omaha. They would win the first game 2-0 over the Louisville Cardinals after a brilliant performance from starting pitcher Joey DeNato before losing their next two games and being eliminated.[3]
Bloomington Regional
| Bloomington Regional Teams | |||
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| (1) Indiana Hoosiers | (2) Indiana State Sycamores | (3) Stanford Cardinal | (4) Youngstown State Penguins |
| First Round | Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Indiana | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Youngstown State | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Indiana | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Stanford | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Stanford | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Indiana State | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Indiana | 7 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Stanford | 10 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Youngstown State | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Indiana State | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Youngstown State | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Stanford | 12 | |||||||||||||
- Bloomington Regional Scores Source[4]
References
- "2014 Baseball Standings". Big Ten Conference. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
- "Stanford Walk-Off Home Run Ends Indiana's Season". Indiana University Athletics. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- "DeNato Pitches Gem as IU Tops Louisville in CWS". Indiana University Athletics. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- "2014 Division I baseball championship schedule". ESPN.com. 2014-06-18. Retrieved 2021-05-26.