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2012 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament

2012 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination with
single bye for top two teams
Site
Champions Purdue (1st title)
Winning coach Doug Schreiber (1st title)
MVP Kevin Plawecki (Purdue)
Television BTN
2012 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#15 Purdue y 17 7   .708     45 14   .763
Indiana 16 8   .667     32 28   .533
Penn State 15 9   .625     29 27   .518
Nebraska 14 10   .583     35 23   .603
Michigan State y 13 11   .542     37 23   .617
Ohio State 11 13   .458     33 27   .550
Illinois 11 13   .458     28 25   .528
Minnesota 11 13   .458     29 27   .518
Iowa 10 14   .417     23 27   .460
Michigan 8 16   .333     22 34   .393
Northwestern 6 18   .250     18 36   .333
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2012; Rankings from Coaches' Poll

The 2012 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio from May 23 through 26. The top six teams from the regular season participate in the double-elimination tournament to determine the league champion. Purdue won their first tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This was also Purdue's second year ever winning a conference championship in baseball, having won the conference regular season in 1909.

The 2012 tournament will be a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage. The top two seeds will receive a single bye into the semifinals (2nd Round). The 1 seed will play the lowest seeded Round 1 winner, while the 2 seed will play the highest seeded Round 1 winner.

* - Indicates game required 11 innings.

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Additional honorees at first base and shortstop were due to ties.

Kevin Plawecki was named Most Outstanding Player. Plawecki was a junior catcher for Purdue, and also claimed the regular season Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year award.


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