2005 Big Ten baseball tournament

The 2005 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Illinois Field on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, from May 15 through 19. The top six teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the twenty fourth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Ohio State won their seventh tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[3]

2005 Big Ten Conference
baseball tournament
Teams6
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsOhio State (7th title)
Winning coachBob Todd (7th title)
MVPSteve Caravati (Ohio State)
2005 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Illinois  ‍†‍‍ 20–12 .62533–23 .589
Purdue  ‍‍‍ 17–11 .60727–30 .474
Iowa  ‍‍‍ 19–13 .59428–29 .491
Michigan  ‍‍‍y 17–12 .58642–19 .689
Ohio State  ‍‍‡‍y 17–12 .58640–20 .667
Minnesota  ‍‍‍ 17–15 .53133–29 .532
Northwestern  ‍‍‍ 14–18 .43826–28 .481
Penn State  ‍‍‍ 13–19 .40628–27 .509
Michigan State  ‍‍‍ 10–18 .35722–31 .415
Indiana  ‍‍‍ 9–23 .28126–30 .464
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 2005[1][2]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding

The 2005 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Michigan claimed the fourth seed over Ohio State by tiebreaker. As in the previous three 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.[3]

TeamWLPCTGBSeed
Illinois2012.625
–
1
Purdue1711.607
1
2
Iowa1913.594
1
3
Michigan1712.586
1.5
4
Ohio State1712.586
1.5
5
Minnesota1715.531
3
6
Northwestern1418.438
6
–
Penn State1319.406
7
–
Michigan State1018.357
8
–
Indiana923.281
11
–

Tournament
Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
1Illinois8
3Iowa76Minnesota11
6Minnesota146Minnesota6
5Ohio State15
2Purdue2
4Michigan3*5Ohio State6
5Ohio State7*
5Ohio State314
6Minnesota46
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
6Minnesota9
1Illinois3†2Purdue7
2Purdue92Purdue4†
3Iowa64Michigan7
4Michigan8

* - Indicates game required 13 innings. † - Indicates game required 11 innings.

All-Tournament Team

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

PosNameSchool
PDan DeLuciaOhio State
PMatt LobergMinnesota
PJim BrauerMichigan
CJake ElderMinnesota
1BAndy HunterMinnesota
1BEric WolfePurdue
2BChris GetzMichigan
2BJoe MaciejMinnesota
SSMitch HilligossPurdue
3BShawn RoofIllinois
OFMike MeeMinnesota
OFSteve CaravatiOhio State
OFMatt AngleOhio State
OFWes SchirtzingerOhio State
DHAdam AbrahamMichigan

Most Outstanding Player

Steve Caravati was named Most Outstanding Player. Caravati was an outfielder for Ohio State.[3]

References
  1. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. p. 101. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  2. "College Baseball Conference Standings – 2005". Boyd's World. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  3. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 28, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
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