Jeff Mercer

Biography

Indiana Records and Accolades: Career Record at Indiana: 207-149-1 (Seven Seasons) Big Ten Championships: 1 (2019) Big Ten Tournament Appearances: 5 (2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) (tournament not contested in 2020 or 2021) NCAA Tournament Appearances: 3 (2019, 2023, 2024) Players Selected in the MLB Draft: 30 All-Americans: 4 Head coach Jeff Mercer wrapped up his seventh season as the skipper of Indiana following the 2025 season. Mercer continues to build the program through high-level high school talent and deliberate evaluation of the transfer portal. The player development within the program has also shown in his first seven seasons with a Big Ten-best 30 unique student-athletes drafted over that span. He has continued a tradition of excellence in his first seven years on the job. He has led the Hoosiers to 100 Big Ten victories, 30 unique MLB Draft Picks, all five contested Big Ten Tournaments, three NCAA Regional appearances and a Big Ten regular season championships (2019). Mercer’s start to his IU coaching career saw him join coaching legend Everett Dean as the only IU coaches to win a Big Ten title in their first year as a head coach, a trip to the NCAA Louisville Regional, a season cut short due to a global pandemic and the first-ever conference-only slate in Big Ten history. After bringing in a large crop of freshmen in 2022, Mercer delivered back-to-back tournament appearances in 2023 and 2024. Mercer brought a winning background to Indiana. In his time as a head c