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2002 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament

2002 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Ohio State (5th title)
Winning coach Bob Todd (5th title)
MVP Joe Wilkins (Ohio State)
2002 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Minnesota 18 10   .643     32 26   .552
Ohio State y 18 11   .621     38 20   .655
Michigan State 16 12   .571     38 19   .667
Indiana 15 14   .517     35 20   .636
Iowa 15 16   .484     26 29   .473
Northwestern 14 15   .483     26 29   .473
Illinois 14 15   .483     32 19   .627
Michigan 14 17   .452     21 32   .396
Purdue 13 19   .406     24 32   .429
Penn State 11 19   .367     23 30   .434
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2002; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2002 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Siebert Field on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota from May 15 through 19. The top six teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the twenty first annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Ohio State won their fifth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The 2002 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Northwestern claimed the sixth seed over Illinois by tiebreaker. For the first time, the top two seeds received a single bye, with the four lower seeds playing opening round games. The top seed played the lowest seeded winner from the opening round, with the second seed playing the higher seed. Teams that lost in the opening round played an elimination game.

* - Indicates game required 10 innings.

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

Joe Wilkins was named Most Outstanding Player. Wilkins was a catcher for Ohio State.


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