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2001 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

2001 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Kent State (3rd title)
Winning coach Rick Rembielak (1st title)
MVP John VanBenschoten (Kent State)
2001 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Bowling Green x 18 9   .667     36 18   .667
Ohio 16 11   .593     29 25   .537
Kent State y 16 11   .593     32 30   .516
Miami 16 12   .571     35 25   .583
Marshall 11 17   .393     24 29   .453
Akron 9 18   .333     16 34   .320
Buffalo 5 23   .179     11 39   .220
West
Ball State x 21 5   .808     34 23   .596
Central Michigan 16 12   .571     35 24   .593
Eastern Michigan 14 12   .538     20 33   .377
Western Michigan 15 13   .536     26 28   .481
Northern Illinois 10 17   .370     28 27   .509
Toledo 10 17   .370     26 29   .473
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2001; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2001 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place in May 2001. The top six regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament held at Ball Diamond on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. This was the thirteenth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Fourth seed Kent State won their third tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The winner of each division claimed the top two seeds, while the next four finishers based on conference winning percentage only, regardless of division, participated in the tournament. The teams played double-elimination tournament. This was the fourth year of the six team tournament.

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

John VanBenschoten won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. VanBenschoten played for Kent State.


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