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2008 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament

2008 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Michigan (8th title)
Winning coach Rich Maloney (2nd title)
MVP Michael Powers (Michigan)
2008 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#20 Michigan y 26 5   .839     46 14   .767
Purdue 21 10   .677     32 26   .552
Penn State 17 15   .531     27 31   .466
Illinois 16 15   .516     31 25   .554
Ohio State 15 15   .500     30 26   .536
Indiana 15 17   .469     31 30   .508
Northwestern 14 18   .438     21 28   .429
Michigan State 12 18   .400     24 29   .453
Minnesota 10 21   .323     20 35   .364
Iowa 10 22   .313     22 33   .400
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2008; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2008 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan from May 15 through 19. The top six teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the twenty seventh annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Michigan won their eighth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The 2008 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. As in the previous six 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.

* - Indicates game required 10 innings.

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

Michael Powers was named Most Outstanding Player. Powers was a pitcher for Michigan.


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