Ball State Baseball's retooled roster aims to replicate 2023 season success
By Nick Shelton and Trinity Rea / February 6, 2024
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Ball State won just four percent of all games played (27/114).
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“Our team is kind of like a pineapple, you can serve it so many different ways,” junior Nyla Hampton said. “Sliced, chopped, little circles, chunks, you never know what you are going to get exactly. There are so many different ways to swing it, and it makes it fun for me to play that way.”
Ball State (12-10, 4-6 MAC) bounced back from a loss less than a week prior with a 77-67 win against Western Michigan (8-14, 5-5 MAC). The Cardinals return to action Tuesday, Feb. 6 against Ohio (12-10, 6-4 MAC) at Worthen Arena in Muncie, Indiana, at 7 p.m.
The Cardinals forced Ohio into seven turnovers and held them to just five points through the first eight minutes of Saturday’s game. Ball State’s full-court pressure has given teams trouble all season long and the Bobcats couldn’t get into any sort of offense to start the game.
In spite of the sizable contingent of fans in attendance, No. 15 Ball State was unable to manufacture a winning performance. The Cardinals fell to No. 8 Penn State (7-2) in a three-set battle (24-26, 22-25, 19-25).
“We had a tough matchup,” head coach Bill Richards said. “All in all, I thought we made a good effort. It's always disappointing to lose, but I thought we played at a pretty good level and that's really what we talk about, win or lose, is playing at a level where you give yourself a chance [to succeed].”
The Cardinals have been ranked third in the collegeinsider.com mid-major poll (rankings for a number of non-Power-Five conferences) for eight straight weeks. After its Jan. 21 win against the fourth-ranked team in that poll, Toledo, Ball State got six votes from various coaches around the country to be in the USA Today top 25 coaches poll the following week. This week, it got 11 votes in that poll.
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