The Iowa Hawkeye baseball team opens a three game Big Ten series tonight (Friday night) at Indiana. The Hawkeyes opened the league race by dropping two of three games against Maryland. Indiana is 5-1 in the Big Ten and is 15-0 this season at home.

That’s Iowa coach Rick Heller who expects Brody Brecht to take the mound in Friday’s opener. He took a line drive off of his ankle in last week’s start against Maryland.

Heller hopes eventually Iowa’s starting pitchers will eat up more innings but for right now the key remains the bullpen and an offense that averages nearly nine runs per game.

Iowa is 21-6 overall.