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1988 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament

1988 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Minnesota (3rd title)
Winning coach John Anderson (3rd title)
MVP Vince Palyan (Minnesota)
1988 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#19 Michigan †y 20 – 8   .714     48 – 19   .716
Minnesota ‡y 17 – 11   .607     38 – 28   .576
Michigan State 16 – 12   .571     41 – 20   .672
Ohio State 16 – 12   .571     32 – 28   .533
Wisconsin 15 – 13   .536     28 – 27   .509
Iowa 14 – 14   .500     29 – 25   .537
Illinois 12 – 16   .429     26 – 20   .565
Indiana 11 – 17   .393     39 – 29   .574
Northwestern 11 – 17   .393     28 – 28   .500
Purdue 8 – 20   .286     26 – 34   .433
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1988; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1988 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Minneapolis, Minnesota from May 19 through 21. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the eighth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Minnesota won their third tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1988 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The 1988 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only.

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

Vince Palyan was named Most Outstanding Player. Palyan was an outfielder for Minnesota.


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