1998 Big Ten baseball tournament

1998 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Illinois ‍†‍‍^y	19	–	5	.792	39	–	19	.672
Minnesota ‍‍‡‍^y	19	–	9	.679	43	–	13	.768
Ohio State ‍‍‍	18	–	9	.667	36	–	16	.692
Penn State ‍‍‍	15	–	11	.577	28	–	24	.538
Indiana ‍‍‍	14	–	14	.500	29	–	27	.518
Iowa ‍‍‍	9	–	15	.375	19	–	27	.413
Michigan ‍‍‍	9	–	15	.375	21	–	27	.438
Northwestern ‍‍‍	10	–	18	.357	27	–	26	.509
Purdue ‍‍‍	9	–	18	.333	23	–	29	.442
Michigan State ‍‍‍	8	–	16	.333	25	–	27	.481

x – Division champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1998^[1]^[2] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1998 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 four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the eighteenth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Minnesota won their sixth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.^[3]

Format and seeding

The 1998 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only.^[3]

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

Mark Groebner was named Most Outstanding Player. Groebner was an outfielder for Minnesota.^[3]

^ 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. p. 101. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
^ "College Baseball Conference Standings – 1998". Boyd's World. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 28, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2013.