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2002 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

2002 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Kent State (4th title)
Winning coach Rick Rembielak (2nd title)
MVP Brad Snyder (Ball State)
2002 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Bowling Green x 18 7   .720     32 22   .593
Kent State y 18 8   .692     37 22   .627
Miami 16 12   .571     31 28   .525
Ohio 14 13   .519     26 25   .510
Akron 8 19   .296     18 33   .353
Buffalo 6 17   .261     16 28   .364
Marshall 7 20   .259     17 35   .327
West
Eastern Michigan x 19 9   .679     30 28   .517
Ball State 17 9   .654     34 23   .596
Central Michigan 14 10   .583     31 25   .554
Western Michigan 12 13   .480     22 25   .468
Northern Illinois 11 14   .440     23 32   .418
Toledo 9 18   .333     18 34   .346
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2002; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2002 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place in May 2002. The top six regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament held at Warren E. Steller Field on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. This was the fourteenth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Third seed Kent State won their second consecutive and fourth overall tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2002 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 fifth year of the six team tournament.

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

Brad Snyder won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Snyder played for Ball State.


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