Spartan baseball gears up for series vs Minnesota with the Big Ten Tournament on the line
Spartan baseball gears up for series vs Minnesota with the Big Ten Tournament on the line
The college baseball season has reached it's final weekend of the 2025 regular season. For Michigan State, the final weekend of the 2025 regular season will be spent at home in East Lansing for a three game series against Minnesota.
Michigan State enters the weekend at 27-23 (12-15 B1G), while Minnesota sits at 22-27 (8-19 B1G). While it is a mute point for the Golden Gophers, other than wanting to play spoiler, Michigan State needs a big time weekend to continue it's season next weekend in the Big Ten Tournament.
MSU currently sits at No. 12 in the standings, tied with Illinois (No. 11) and Northwestern (No. 13), and just a game back of Nebraska and Rutgers who are tied for No. 9. The biggest note of that standings situation - only the top 12 teams in the Big Ten standings will qualify for the Big Ten Tournament.
With a cluster of teams at the cutline for that Big Ten Tournament, it makes it quite obvious that this weekends games are officially the most important of the 2025 season. A case could also be made that Jake Boss Jr. is coaching for the safety of his job.
The series against the Golden Gophers will be played at 6 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, with a 1 p.m. game on Saturday.
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