| Year: | 2000 |
| Conference: | Big Ten Conference |
| Teams: | 6 |
| Format: | Double-elimination |
| Ballpark: | Siebert Field |
| City: | Minneapolis, MN |
| Titlecount: | 3rd |
| Coach: | Itch Jones |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Jason Anderson |
| Mvpteam: | Illinois |
The 2000 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Siebert Field on the campus of University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from May 15 through 19. The top six teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the nineteenth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their third tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1]
The 2000 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Purdue claimed the third seed over Illinois by tiebreaker. This was the first year of the expanded six team format, with all previous years being four team events.[1]
| Team | W | L | PCT | GB | Seed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 8 | .714 | ||||
| 18 | 9 | .667 | ||||
| 17 | 11 | .607 | ||||
| 17 | 11 | .607 | ||||
| 15 | 13 | .536 | ||||
| 13 | 15 | .464 | ||||
| 11 | 17 | .393 | ||||
| 10 | 18 | .357 | ||||
| 9 | 18 | .333 | ||||
| 9 | 19 | .321 |
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[1]
| Pos | Name | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | Illinois | ||
| P | David Gassner | Purdue | |
| C | Chris Netwall | Penn State | |
| 1B | Ohio State | ||
| 2B | Eric Spadt | Penn State | |
| 3B | Craig Marquie | Illinois | |
| OF | Jason Turner | Ohio State | |
| OF | Michael Campo | Penn State | |
| OF | Nate Sickler | Purdue | |
| DH | Luke Appert | Minnesota |
Jason Anderson was named Most Outstanding Player. Anderson was a pitcher for Illinois.[1]