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2004 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament

2004 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Minnesota (8th title)
Winning coach John Anderson (8th title)
MVP Glen Perkins (Minnesota)
2004 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Minnesota y 21 21   .500     38 23   .623
Ohio State 19 12   .613     36 25   .590
Michigan 19 13   .594     34 26   .567
Michigan State 19 13   .594     33 26   .559
Purdue 17 14   .548     29 28   .509
Penn State 17 15   .531     28 29   .491
Northwestern 14 18   .438     26 28   .481
Iowa 12 20   .375     20 35   .364
Illinois 11 21   .344     22 33   .400
Indiana 9 22   .290     25 30   .455
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2004; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2004 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 third annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Minnesota won their eighth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The 2004 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Michigan claimed the third seed over Michigan State by tiebreaker. As in the previous two years, 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.

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

Glen Perkins was named Most Outstanding Player. Perkins was a pitcher for Minnesota.


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