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No Excuse – Youthful IU Baseball Team Has Big Goals

IUHoosiers.com

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Country music plays against the crack of bat meeting ball. Bart Kaufman Field lights battle approaching dusk magnified by incoming rain.

Indiana head coach Jeff Mercer throws batting practice and balls shoot through the air and on the ground to waiting fielders.

Baseball season looms and the Hoosiers prepare to defend their Big Ten championship faced with plenty of questions. The quality of the answers will determine if this is a good or great season.

"This offseason has been tough," pitcher Gabe Bierman says.