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Big Ten Baseball Tournament delayed, Indiana-Purdue to start at 1 pm CT

Alex Weberby:Alex Weber•05/21/24
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Well, we already have a delay for the start of the 2024 Big Ten Baseball Tournament as the conference announced that first pitch between Indiana and Purdue has been moved back to 1:00 p.m. CT (2:00 p.m. ET).

Here was the tweet from the official Big Ten Baseball account alerting fans of the sour news: “Tournament Update: The start of Game 1 between Indiana and Purdue has been delayed until 1pm CT.”

One person on Twitter screen-grabbed a snapchat from someone at the historic Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska (site of the 2024 Big Ten tourney) which showed the dugouts looking more like swimming pools. Check it out:

That photo certainly doesn’t bode well for Big Ten fans hoping to see a full slate of baseball on this Tuesday afternoon. Indiana and Purdue were actually supposed to begin their game bright and early at 10:00 a.m. local central time. Obviously, the storms pushed that start time back, and now, the first game of the Big Ten Tournament has been delayed even further, now throwing a wrench into the entire day of games and possibly altering the whole week’s schedule.

Somehow, some way, we will get these baseball games completed. It just might take an unusual schedule. Below you can see the full bracket and original schedule:

2024 Big Ten Baseball Tournament bracket, schedule

Tuesday, May 21

Game 1: No. 3 seed Indiana vs. No. 6 seed Purdue, 10 a.m. (DELAYED)
Game 2: No. 2 seed Nebraska vs. No. 7 seed Ohio State, 2 p.m. (Likely DELAYED)
Game 3: No. 1 seed Illinois vs. No. 8 seed Penn State, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 22

Game 4: No. 4 seed Michigan vs. No. 5 seed Iowa, 2 p.m.
Game 5: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 23

Game 6: Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 10 a.m.
Game 7: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, 2 p.m.
Game 8: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner, 6 p.m.

Friday, May 24

Game 9: Game 5 winner vs. Game 7 loser, 2 p.m.
Game 10: Game 6 winner vs. Game 8 loser, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 25

Game 11: Game 7 winner vs. Game 9 winner, 9 a.m
Game 12: Game 8 winner vs. Game 10 winner, 1 p.m.
Game 13: Game 11 winner vs. Game 11 loser (if necessary), 5 p.m.
Game 14: Game 12 winner vs. Game 12 loser (if necessary), 9 p.m.

Sunday, May 26

Championship: Game 11/13 winner vs. Game 12/14 winner, 2 p.m.

All times are CT and on Big Ten Network