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1989 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament

1989 Big Ten Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Finals Site
Champions Illinois (1st title)
Winning coach Augie Garrido (1st title)
MVP Rich Capparelli Illinois
1989 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#12 Michigan y 21 6   .778     49 16   .754
Iowa 17 11   .607     37 20   .649
#24 Illinois y 17 11   .607     42 16   .724
Ohio State 16 12   .571     34 27   .557
Minnesota 15 12   .556     31 22   .585
Northwestern 15 13   .536     26 30   .464
Michigan State 13 15   .464     25 26   .490
Purdue 11 17   .393     34 25   .576
Wisconsin 9 19   .321     22 37   .373
Indiana 5 23   .179     34 26   .567
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1989; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1989 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 20. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the ninth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Illinois won their first tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Illinois was the first team other than Michigan and Minnesota to win the event.

The 1989 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Iowa claimed the second seed by tiebreaker over Illinois

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

Rich Capparelli was named Most Outstanding Player. Capparelli was a pitcher for Illinois.


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