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Big Ten baseball to play 44-game, conference-only schedule; UM starts ranked No. 20

Michigan baseball, runner-up two seasons ago and ranked No. 1 for a portion of last season before it was cut short amid the pandemic, hasn't played a game since March 7.

There's finally light at the end of the tunnel.

The Big Ten Conference held a Zoom call Wednesday to discuss scheduling and is expected to announce soon that teams will play 44-game conference-only slates, starting March 5, according to Michigan coach Erik Bakich.

"We're all staring at our computers, waiting for the schedule," Bakich said with a laugh.

"As we've seen with basketball and football, it's not how many games you schedule, it's how many games you play.