1996 Big Ten baseball tournament

The 1996 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Beaver Field on the campus of Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania from May 15 through 19. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the sixteenth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Indiana won their first tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[3]

1996 Big Ten Conference
baseball tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsIndiana (1st title)
Winning coachBob Morgan (1st title)
MVPDan Ferrell (Indiana)
1996 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Penn State  ‍†‍‍ 19–8 .70432–24 .571
Indiana  ‍‍‡‍y 18–8 .69243–18 .705
Illinois  ‍‍‍ 17–10 .63037–22 .627
Michigan  ‍‍‍ 17–11 .60724–30 .444
Minnesota  ‍‍‍ 15–12 .55630–26 .536
Ohio State  ‍‍‍ 15–13 .53636–20 .643
Iowa  ‍‍‍ 13–13 .50025–22 .532
Northwestern  ‍‍‍ 10–18 .35726–29 .473
Purdue  ‍‍‍ 8–19 .29622–32 .407
Michigan State  ‍‍‍ 4–24 .14314–41 .255
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 1996[1][2]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding

The 1996 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only.[3]

TeamWLPCTGBSeed
Penn State198.704
–
1
Indiana188.692
.5
2
Illinois1710.630
2
3
Michigan17111.607
2.5
4
Minnesota1512.556
4
–
Ohio State1513.536
4.5
–
Iowa1313.500
5.5
–
Northwestern1018.357
9.5
–
Purdue819.296
11
–
Michigan State424.143
15.5
–

Tournament
Upper round 1Upper finalFinal
1Penn State14
4Michigan3
1Penn State2
2Indiana6
2Indiana6
3Illinois3
2Indiana
3Illinois
Lower round 1Lower final
1Penn State3
4Michigan43Illinois11
3Illinois7

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[3]

PosNameSchool
PJason WollardIllinois
PDan FerrellIndiana
CMatt BraughlerIndiana
1BPhil BertolottiPenn State
2BBrian McClureIllinois
SSJosh KlimekIllinois
3BMike CrottyIndiana
OFDanny RhodesIllinois
OFRyan DillonIndiana
OFMike SpisakIndiana
OFJason AlcarazMichigan
DHTodd McClureIllinois

Most Outstanding Player

Dan Ferrell was named Most Outstanding Player. Ferrell was a pitcher for Indiana.[3]

References
  1. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. p. 101. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  2. "College Baseball Conference Standings – 1996". Boyd's World. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  3. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 28, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
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