2002 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament | |
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Classification | Division |
Teams | 6 |
Format | Double-elimination |
Site | |
Champions | Ohio State (5th title) |
Winning coach | Bob Todd (5th title) |
MVP | Joe Wilkins (Ohio State) |
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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.