CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Illinois baseball team won 66.1-percent of its games over the last four years, the program's best four-year winning percentage since 1960-1963 (.695).
Illinois went 145-74-1 between 2013-16, including a 64-30 mark in Big Ten games. The Fighting Illini had its best season in program history last year, when they went 50-10-1 and won the NCAA Champaign Regional on the way to hosting the program's first ever NCAA Super Regional. Last year ended a run of winning 65.5-percent of games over a four-year period (145-76-1).
Every Fighting Illini player that has played four years since 1979 has won 50-percent or better of their games. During the 35 straight seasons that ended four-year runs with a winning percentage over .500, Illinois has had 10 seasons finish four-year spans over .600.
| BEST FOUR-YEAR WINNING PERCENTAGES SINCE 1950 |
| RANK |
YEARS |
W-L (PCT.) |
| 1. |
1959-62 |
90-33 (.732) |
| 2. |
1947-50 |
64-27-1 (.701) |
| 3. |
1960-63 |
89-39 (.695) |
| 4. |
1958-61 |
83-37 (.692) |
| 5. |
1957-60 |
78-38 (.672) |
| 6. |
1949-53 |
66-32-1 (.672) |
| 7. |
2013-16 |
145-74-1 (.661) |
| 8. |
1948-51 |
58-30 (.657) |
| 9. |
2012-15 |
145-76-1 (.655) |
| 10. |
1987-90 |
143-81 (.638) |
