TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Fresh off a 43-win season and the teams’ 10th NCAA Regional appearance in 2019, Indiana State head coach Mitch Hannahs has announced his clubs 2020 schedule. The 54-game slate will include 23 games at Bob Warn Field as well as 12 games against seven different 2019 NCAA Tournament teams.
The Sycamores, which finished 43-18 a season ago, will play 23 games against teams that finished in the Top 100 in RPI according to WarrenNolan.com.
Indiana State opens the season February 14 with seven-straight games in Fort Myers, Florida against the likes of Pittsburgh, Kent State, Ohio State, Omaha, Dartmouth and Chicago State.
Three of the seven games in Florida to start the season will be against NCAA Tournament teams from 2019 with two games against Omaha and a game against Ohio State. The February 16 matchup with the Buckeyes will mark a rematch of an elimination game in the 2019 NCAA Tournament after the Sycamores sent Ohio State back to Columbus following a 10-5 victory in the Nashville Regional.
Indiana State continue life on the road in late February as the team travels to Cincinnati February 26 for a midweek game against the Bearcats, another NCAA Tournament team from 2019. ISU will make the trek to North Carolina for their first three-game series of the year starting February 28 with a matchup against Elon.
The Sycamores will play their first home game of the year as they welcome San Diego to Bob Warn Field March 3 for a midweek game with the Toreros.
Indiana State will make their first trip to Lawrence for a three-game set with the Kansas Jayhawks March 6-8 before returning home to host Big 10 opponent Michigan State in a three-game series at Bob Warn Field March 13-15.
ISU returns to the road with a midweek trip to Wright State Mar. 18 before a three-game series with Xavier March 20-22. Indiana State will then return home for back-to-back midweek games against Big 10 foes Illinois and Purdue, March 24-25.
Murray State will make the trip to Terre Haute for a weekend series Mar. 27-29 before ISU travels to Miami (OH) and Purdue for midweek games March 31 and April 1.
Other midweek games for the Sycamores include matchups against Indiana on the road April 7 and at home April 21 and Ball State at home May 12. The Sycamores will travel to Nashville April 14 to face defending National Champion Vanderbilt.
Indiana State opens Missouri Valley Conference action April 3 when Evansville makes the trip north to Terre Haute for a weekend series. The Sycamores will also play host to Illinois State (Apr. 24-26), Dallas Baptist (May 1-3) and Missouri State (May 14-16) during MVC play. Sycamore fans will see six MVC contests at Bob Warn Field between 2019 NCAA Tournament participants when the Patriots and Redbirds come to town.
ISU will travel to Bradley (Apr. 10-12), Valparaiso (Apr. 17-19) and Southern Illinois (May 8-10) during MVC play.In
