2009 Big Ten baseball tournament

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.[3]

2009 Big Ten Conference
baseball tournament
Teams6
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsIndiana (2nd title)
Winning coachTracy Smith (1st title)
MVPMatt Bashore (Indiana)
2009 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 25 Ohio State  y 186 .7504219 .689
No. 26 Minnesota  y 176 .7394019 .678
Indiana  y 167 .6963227 .542
Illinois   168 .6673420 .630
Michigan State   1311 .5422331 .426
Purdue   1112 .4782526 .490
Michigan   915 .3753025 .545
Penn State   816 .3332526 .490
Northwestern   517 .2271435 .286
Iowa   419 .1741635 .314
x Division champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 2009[1][2]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding

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.[3]

TeamWLPCTGBSeed
Ohio State186.7501
Minnesota176.739.52
Indiana167.6961.53
Illinois168.66724
Michigan State1311.54255
Purdue1112.4786.56
Michigan915.3759
Penn State816.33310
Northwestern517.22712
Iowa419.17413.5

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Results

Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
1Ohio State7
5Michigan State54Illinois4
4Illinois161Ohio State3
3Indiana13
2Minnesota3
6Purdue13Indiana12
3Indiana9
3Indiana13
2Minnesota2
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
2Minnesota9
2Minnesota131Ohio State6
6Purdue34Illinois4
6Purdue122Minnesota12
5Michigan State9

* - Indicats game required extra innings.

All-Tournament Team

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

PosNameSchool
PEric ArnettIndiana
PMatt BashoreIndiana
PTim BuskeMinnesota
CDan BurkhartOhio State
1BNick O'SheaMinnesota
2BDerek McCallumMinnesota
3BVince GonzalezIndiana
SSJake DunningIndiana
OFPete CappettaIllinois
OFKipp SchutzIndiana
OFEric DeckerMinnesota
DHAlex DickersonIndiana

Most Outstanding Player

Matt Bashore was named Most Outstanding Player. Bashore was a pitcher for Indiana.[3]

References

  1. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. p. 101. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  2. "College Baseball Conference Standings – 2009". Boyd's World. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  3. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 28, 2013. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
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