1987 Big Ten baseball tournament explained

Year:1987
Conference:Big Ten Conference
Teams:4
Format:Double-elimination
Ballpark:Ray Fisher Stadium
City:Ann Arbor, MI
Titlecount:5th
Coach:Bud Middaugh
Coachcount:5th
Mvp:Greg Everson
Mvpteam:Michigan

The 1987 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from May 15 through 19. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the seventh annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their fifth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I baseball tournament[1]

Format and seeding

The 1987 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. Iowa claimed the second seed from the West by tiebreaker.[1]

Team W L PCT GB Seed
East Division
13 3 .813
10 6 .625
7 9 .438
6 10 .375
4 12 .250
West Division
12 4 .750
9 7 .563
9 7 .563
5 11 .313
5 11 .313

All-Tournament Team

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

Pos Name School
P Greg Everson Michigan
P Chris Lutz Michigan
P Andy Swain Purdue
C Darrin Campbell Michigan
1B Phil Price Michigan
2B Bob Gerhard Purdue
SS Arci CianfroccoPurdue
3B Bill St. Peter Michigan
OF Jeff Allison Purdue
OF Jeff Durham Michigan
OF Luis Ramirez Iowa
DH Brett Roach Purdue

Most Outstanding Player

Greg Everson was named Most Outstanding Player. McIntosh was an outfielder for Michigan.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book . Big Ten Conference . March 10, 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 .