It's been a rough year for the Indiana baseball program, and they couldn't ask for a worse time to face in-state rival, Purdue.

The good news for the Hoosiers is they didn't have a weekday game, so they should be well rested for this weekend's series, but the bad news is Purdue's Tuesday contest against Ball State got canned due to the weather, so the Boilermakers should be equally as fresh as Indiana.

About Indiana

There's no other way to put it other than this has been a major down year for IU. The Hoosiers have won at least 32 games each of the last three seasons, but Indiana will be lucky to finish .500 this season. Indiana is 21-27 overall and tied for the second-worst record in the Big Ten at 7-17.

The Hoosiers last won a Big Ten series in early April after taking two of three from Rutgers, but it's been pretty much all downhill since.…