By Pete Cava

PBR Indiana Correspondent

Indiana University’s baseball team won’t be the only Hoosiers in action when the NCAA Division I Tournament gets underway this week.  The double-elimination event opens Thursday at Stanford, Calif., with competition at the other 15 regional sites beginning Friday.  

Fourteen of the 64 schools in this year’s tourney include former Indiana high school players.  IU leads the way with 14.  The Hoosiers’ first game is Friday against Ohio University at Cliff Hagan Stadium in Lexington, Ky.   

Louisville is next with seven ex-Hoosier preps on its roster.  The Cardinals currently rank sixth in the USA Today Coaches Poll. 

Xavier has four Indiana high school alums, Ohio and Kentucky have two apiece, and nine schools include one ex-Hoosier prep:  Michigan, Florida Gulf Coast, Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, Central Florida, Illinois-Chicago, Iowa, Yale and Nebraska.      

The numbers show a slight increase from last year’s NCAA Division I regionals, when 13 schools took part with 33 Hoosier high school products.  

The complete list of players with Indiana connections in the 2017 NCAA Division I Tournament: 

At Chapel Hill, N.C.

Michigan:  Jr. RHP Mac Lozer (North Central HS).

Florida Gulf Coast:  Jr. RHP Peyton Grey (Columbus East HS).

North Carolina:  none.

Davidson:  none.

At Winston-Salem, N.C.

Maryland:  none.

West Virginia:  none.

Wake Forest:  Sr. RHP Parker Dunshee (Zionsville HS).

Maryland, Baltimore County:  none.

At Lexington, Ky.

North Carolina State:  none.

Indiana:  Fr. LHP Cameron Beauchamp (Peru HS), Sr. OF Craig Dedelow (Munster HS), Fr. INF Matt Gorski (Hamilton Southeastern HS), So. LHP Tim Herrin (Terre Haute South Vigo HS), Jr. RHP Brandon Kelley (homeschooled – Evansville), Fr. RHP Cal Krueger (Jasper HS), Sr. OF Alex Krupa (Greenwood HS), So. INF Luke Miller (Cowan HS), So. RHP Pauly Milto (Indianapolis Roncalli), Fr. LHP Andrew Saalfrank (Heritage HS), So. RHP Grant Sloan (Zionsville HS), Jr. OF Logan Sowers (McCutcheon HS), Sr. RHP Luke Stephenson (Triton Central HS), Jr. INF Colby Stratten (Bloomington North HS). 

Kentucky:  Fr. C T.J. Collett (Terre Haute North Vigo HS), Fr. LHP Zack Thompson (Wapahani HS).

Ohio:  Jr. OF/INF Tony Giannini (Carmel HS), So INF/RHP Kenny Ogg (Indianapolis Lawrence Central HS).

At Louisville, Ky.

Xavier:  Sr. LHP Trent Astle (Jeffersonville HS), Jr. RHP Christian Glass (Columbus North HS), So. RHP Matt Kent (Fort Wayne Canterbury HS), Jr. OF Will LaRue (Evansville Mater Dei HS).

Oklahoma:  none.

Louisville:  So. RHP Noah Burkholder (Crown Point HS), Jr. RHP Chandler Dale, (Jeffersonville HS), Fr. RHP Austin Dickey (New Albany HS), Jr. 3B Drew Ellis (Jeffersonville HS), So. RHP Bryan Hoeing (Batesville HS), So. INF Devin Mann (Columbus North HS), Fr. RHP Michael McAvene (Indianapolis Roncalli HS).

Radford:  none.

At Clemson, S.C.

St. John’s:  none. 

Vanderbilt:  Fr. RHP Reid Schaller (Lebanon HS).

Clemson:  none. 

North Carolina-Greensboro:  none.   

At Gainesville, Fla.

Bethune-Cookman:  none.

South Florida:  none.      

Florida:  none. 

Marist:  none.

At Tallahassee, Fla.

Auburn:  none.

Central Florida:  RS So. RHP Nick McCoy (Central Noble HS).

Florida State:  none.       

Tennessee Tech:  none.

At Hattiesburg, Miss.

South Alabama:  none.

Mississippi State:  none. 

Southern Mississippi:  none.

Illinois-Chicago:  Jr. RHP Ryan Campbell (Carmel HS).

At Baton Rouge, La.

Rice:  none.

Southeastern Louisiana:  none.

Louisiana State:  none.

Texas Southern:  none.

At Fayetteville, Ark.

Oklahoma State:  none.

Missouri State:  none.

 Arkansas:  none.

Oral Roberts:  none.

At Fort Worth, Texas

Dallas Baptist:  none. 

Virginia:  none.

Texas Christian:  none. 

Central Connecticut State:  none.    

At Houston, Texas

Texas A&M:  none.

Baylor:  none. 

Houston:  none.

Iowa:  Fr. OF Justin Jenkins (Terre Haute South Vigo HS).

At Lubbock, Texas

Texas Tech:  none.

Delaware:  none.

Sam Houston State:  none.

Arizona:  none.

At Corvallis, Ore.

Yale:  Jr. C/INF Alex Boos (Cathedral HS).

Nebraska:  So. C Jesse Wilkening (Hanover Central HS).

Oregon State:  none.

Holy Cross:  none.  

At Long Beach, Calif.

UCLA:  none. 

Texas:  none. 

Long Beach State:  none.    

San Diego State:  none.   

At Stanford, Calif.

Brigham Young:  none.

Cal State-Fullerton:  none.

Stanford:  none. 

Sacramento State:  none.  

Note:  Players listed appear on rosters currently available from each school and are subject to change prior to tournament play. 

Pete Cava is the author of “Tales From the Cubs Dugout” and “Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players:  A Biographical Dictionary, 1871-2014.”