Illinois Baseball took a bit of a step back this year in a loaded Big Ten — dropping from 2024 regular season champions, to the No. 11 seed in the 2025 Big Ten Tournament.

The Illini are in a threesome with No. 7 Michigan (10 a.m. Tuesday) and No. 2 UCLA (10 a.m. Wednesday) for pool play. Each of the four pool winners will play in a semifinals on May 24, with the championship on the 25th.

You can catch all the games on BTN.

And it’s must-win for Illinois (29-23 overall, 14-16 Big Ten), who has no other hope to make it to the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row.