The Gophers baseball team's second game in the Big Ten tournament with Northwestern scheduled for Thursday night in Bloomington, Ind., was postponed a day. They will play at 9 a.m. Friday,
Minnesota, seeded third, was supposed to play the seventh-seeded Wildcats at 7:30 p.m., but Day 2's schedule was disrupted early because the first of four scheduled games — won by Indiana over Michigan in 13 innings — lasted almost 4½ hours.
The second game of the day, won by Iowa, ended in nine innings but there were 17 runs scored and 27 hits, so it took almost 3½ hours, further pushing Thursday's schedule back.
The third game, between Maryland and Purdue, started about 6:30 p.m. — 2½ hours behind schedule.
That meant it had to finish by 8:20, which would be followed by a mandatory 40-minute break — for the Gophers' game to begin by 9 p.m., the curfew set by tournament officials for the first pitch of the last game.
The Gophers opened the Big Ten tournament with a 5-4 win over the Hoosiers on Wednesday.
The Wildcats, who have not played Minnesota this season, upset second-seeded Michigan 6-4 in their first game.
In Thursday's games:
Indiana 5, Michigan 4 (13): The Hoosiers edged the second-seeded Wolverines in the losers' bracket. Senior outfielder Alex Krupa's RBI single in the 13th ended the longest game in tournament history — 4 hours, 28 minutes — and eliminated No. 16-ranked Michigan.
The Hoosiers (33-21-2) scored two runs in the bottom of the eight to take a 4-3 lead. The first run came home on a groundout, the second on Logan Sowers' single. Michigan (42-15) tied the score on Drew Lugbauer's two-out RBI single in the ninth.
Craig Dedelow had a two-run homer for Indiana in the seventh to tie the score at 2-all.
Cal Krueger, the fifth pitcher for sixth-seeded Indiana, got the victory with three scoreless innings. He gave up two hits, struck out four and walked one.
Michigan used eight pitchers; Jaskie Oliver threw the first seven innings, giving up two runs on four hits. He struck out nine and walked one.
Michigan now has to hope it gets an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
The win gave Indiana coach Chris Lemonis his 100th victory at the school.
Iowa 9, Maryland 8: Matt Hoeg's sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning broke an 8-all as the Hawkeyes (35-19) edged the Terrapins in a first-round game postponed from Wednesday.
Chris Whelan, Robert Neustrom and Tyler Cropley all hit solo homers for Iowa, which took a 4-0 lead in the second. Nick Dunn had a three-run homer for Maryland (34-20), which also hit two solo shots.
"I am proud of our guys, it was a hard-fought game," Iowa coach Rick Heller said. "We had some guys step up big. Chris had a big game and Matt drove in a few runs. We had a lot of good at-bats up-and-down the lineup and found a way to get it done."
Senior Josh Martsching got the win with 1⅔ scoreless innings in relief.
"For me, I want to be in that situation," he said. "I'd rather have the ball in my hands than anyone else's hands."