With NCAA Baseball Tournament bid, Iowa Hawkeyes join exclusive group nationally

Thanks to its at-large bid in the NCAA Baseball Tournament, Iowa is part of an exclusive group of athletic programs nationally.

Iowa baseball is back into the postseason for the first time since 2017. The announcement set off a celebration within Hawkeye nation on Monday.

“No, it feels great. Really happy for this group. I mean, they took it out of the committee’s hands and that’s what we set out to do this fall. What can we do to make sure that we’re still playing in June?

“You know, there is a part of me that you’re thinking about those last two teams that didn’t get the call and felt like that they should have and we’ll be playing for those guys, too,” Iowa head baseball coach Rick Heller said of his team’s draw.

Iowa heads to the Terre Haute Regional, which has No. 14 overall seed Indiana State, North Carolina and Wright State. Here’s your full Terre Haute Regional encyclopedia, complete with plenty of stats and facts on each.

With its inclusion in the college baseball postseason, Iowa also joins a select group of programs nationally in the 2022-23 academic and athletic calendar year. Take a look below.

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