1984 Big Ten baseball tournament explained

Year:1984
Conference:Big Ten Conference
Teams:4
Format:Double-elimination
Ballpark:Siebert Field
City:Minneapolis, MN
Champions:Michigan
Titlecount:3rd
Coach:Bud Middaugh
Coachcount:3rd
Mvp:Kurt Zimmerman
Mvpteam:Michigan

The 1984 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Siebert Field on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from May 18 through 20. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the fourth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Michigan won their third tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Division I baseball tournament[1]

Format and seeding

The 1984 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage within each division. The top seed from each division played the second seed from the opposite division in the first round.[1]

Team W L PCT GB Seed
East Division
11 5 .688
8 7 .533
8 8 .500
6 9 .400
6 10 .375
West Division
11 5 .688
9 6 .600
7 8 .467
6 7 .464
3 10 .231

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[1]

Pos Name School
P Michigan
P Northwestern
C Rich Blair Michigan
1B Ken Hayward Michigan
1B Mike Eddington Michigan State
2B Tom Hildebrand Northwestern
SS Michigan
3B John Stewart Northwestern
OF Jeff Minick Michigan
OF Kurt Zimmerman Michigan
OF Mike Whitman Michigan State
DH Ed Tompa Northwestern
DH Minnesota

Most Outstanding Player

Kurt Zimmerman was named Most Outstanding Player. Zimmerman was an outfielder for Michigan.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book . Big Ten Conference . March 6, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130228125857/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/big10/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/b1grecordsbookbase.pdf . February 28, 2013 .