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1985 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament

1985 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Minnesota (2nd title)
Winning coach John Anderson (2nd title)
MVP John Beckman (Minnesota)
1985 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Michigan xy 14 2   .875     55 10   .846
Ohio State 8 8   .500     29 24   .547
Purdue 8 8   .500     33 25   .569
Indiana 8 8   .500     57 19   .750
Michigan State 2 14   .125     22 35   .386
West
Illinois x 12 4   .750     46 21   .687
Minnesota y 9 7   .563     33 23   .589
Iowa 9 7   .563     40 20   .667
Northwestern 7 9   .438     40 18   .690
Wisconsin 3 13   .188      
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1985; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1985 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan from May 17 through 19. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the fifth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Minnesota won their second tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1985 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

The 1985 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage within each division. The top seed from each division played the second seed from the opposite division in the first round. Ohio State and Minnesota claimed the second seeds from their respective divisions by tiebreakers.

* - Indicates game required 11 innings.

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Jon Beckman was named Most Outstanding Player. Beckman was an outfielder for Minnesota.


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