The Michigan baseball team played from behind all game and despite tying Illinois and sending it to extra innings, couldn’t get it done in the first game of the Big Ten Tournament.

Illinois, the No. 11 seed, defeated No. 7 Michigan, 6-5, in 10 innings on Tuesday at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha. The Wolverines (33-22) will face No. 2 seed UCLA (39-15, ranked No. 13) on Thursday at 11 a.m. in Pool B. With the four-team league expansion, the tournament is now 12 teams with four pools. Each team in the pool will face each other once, and the overall pool winner will advance. The single-elimination semifinals are Saturday and the final Sunday.

Illinois (30-23) took a 6-5 lead in the top of the 10th on a two-out solo home run to left by Jacob Schroeder, but Michigan was retired in order ending its comeback.

After Illinois opened the game with a three-run first inning, Michigan pulled within one run by the sixth. The Illini added a run in the seventh and then the eighth and built a 5-2 lead.

But the Wolverines responded with a three-run inning in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game. Mitch Voit, who on Tuesday was named to the All-Big Ten first team for the second straight year, hit a solo home run to make it 5-3. Jeter Ybarra reached first on a walk, and with two out, Noah Miller tied the game 5-5, on a two-run home run to left.

Michigan had a strong opportunity to win the game in the bottom of the ninth with bases loaded and one out. Illinois brought in Zach Bates in relief, and he walked Voit before getting Ybarra to hit into a double play, as Illinois got the runner at the plate.

Michigan and Illinois opened Big Ten regular-season play with the Wolverines winning the first two games.