MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — With Indiana in the midst of perhaps the best season in the baseball program’s history, coach Tracy Smith had an admission to make before the Big Ten tournament began. If the top-seeded Hoosiers don’t win the double-elimination draw this weekend, well, he wouldn’t mind all that much. ”Don’t think that we’re not going to win this thing. I don’t want that to get out there. But there’s that small piece of me that says I wouldn’t be that disappointed because I think that’s good for our conference,” Smith said. ”The more we get in the NCAA tournament, the better we’re all going to look.” Largely because of obvious geographical factors, baseball has never been one of the Big Ten’s strongest sports. Southern and western schools have long dominated on the diamond. This year, though, the quality of the conference is up. Each of the six coaches …
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