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2009 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament

2009 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Indiana (2nd title)
Winning coach Tracy Smith (1st title)
MVP Matt Bashore (Indiana)
2009 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#25 Ohio State y 18 6   .750     42 19   .689
#26 Minnesota y 17 6   .739     40 19   .678
Indiana y 16 7   .696     32 27   .542
Illinois 16 8   .667     34 20   .630
Michigan State 13 11   .542     23 31   .426
Purdue 11 12   .478     25 26   .490
Michigan 9 15   .375     30 25   .545
Penn State 8 16   .333     25 26   .490
Northwestern 5 17   .227     14 35   .286
Iowa 4 19   .174     16 35   .314
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2009; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2009 Big Ten Baseball Tournament was held at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio from May 20 through 24. Third seeded Indiana won their second tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The 2009 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. As in the previous seven 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.

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* - Indicats game required extra innings.

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

Matt Bashore was named Most Outstanding Player. Bashore was a pitcher for Indiana.


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