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1997 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament

1997 Big Ten Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Finals Site
Champions Ohio State (4th title)
Winning coach Bob Todd (4th title)
MVP Mike Lockwood Ohio State
1997 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Michigan 17 9   .654     36 22   .621
#30 Ohio State y 18 10   .643     42 18   .700
Purdue 17 11   .607     30 25   .545
Illinois 17 11   .607     32 27   .542
Minnesota 15 10   .600     30 24   .556
Penn State 12 14   .462     29 24   .547
Michigan State 12 16   .429     26 28   .481
Indiana 8 16   .333     33 22   .600
Northwestern 9 19   .321     20 35   .364
Iowa 7 16   .304     17 30   .362
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1997; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1997 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 15 through 19. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the seventeenth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Ohio State won their fourth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1997 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The 1997 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.

Mike Lockwood was named Most Outstanding Player. Lockwood was an outfielder for Ohio State.


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