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1998 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament

1998 Big Ten Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Finals Site
Champions Minnesota (6th title)
Winning coach John Anderson (6th title)
MVP Mark Groebner Minnesota
1998 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Illinois y 5 39   .114     19   1.000
Minnesota y 19 9   .679     43 13   .768
Ohio State 18 9   .667     36 16   .692
Penn State 15 11   .577     28 24   .538
Indiana 14 14   .500     29 27   .518
Iowa 9 15   .375     19 27   .413
Michigan 9 15   .375     21 27   .438
Northwestern 10 18   .357     27 26   .509
Purdue 9 18   .333     23 29   .442
Michigan State 8 16   .333     25 27   .481
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1998; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1998 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Illinois Field on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Champaign, Illinois from May 15 through 19. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the eighteenth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Minnesota won their sixth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The 1998 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.

Mark Groebner was named Most Outstanding Player. Groebner was an outfielder for Minnesota.


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