2000 Big Ten baseball tournament

August 2023 June 2026 2000 Big Ten Conference 6 Double-elimination Siebert Field Minneapolis, MN 2000 Illinois Fighting Illini Illinois 3rd Itch Jones 1st Jason Anderson 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. 2000 Illinois Fighting Illini Illinois won their third tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/big10/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/b1grecordsbookbase.pdf Big Ten Conference 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book March 26, 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 Format and seeding 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. Team W L PCT GB Seed 2000 Minnesota Golden Gophers Minnesota 20 8 .714 – 1 2000 Penn State Nittany Lions Penn State 18 9 .667 1.5 2 2000 Purdue Boilermakers Purdue 17 11 .607 3 3 2000 Illinois Fighting Illini Illinois 17 11 .607 3 4 2000 Ohio State Buckeyes Ohio State 15 13 .536 5 5 2000 Northwestern Wildcats Northwestern 13 15 .464 7 6 2000 Iowa Hawkeyes Iowa 11 17 .393 9 – 2000 Michigan Wolverines Michigan 10 18 .357 10 – 2000 Michigan State Spartans Michigan State 9 18 .333 10.5 – 2000 Indiana Hoosiers Indiana 9 19 .321 11 – Tournament 2 1 2000 Minnesota Golden Gophers Minnesota 8 6 2000 Northwestern Wildcats Northwestern 4 2 2000 Penn State Nittany Lions Penn State 8 5 2000 Ohio State Buckeyes Ohio State 7 3 2000 Purdue Boilermakers Purdue 2 4 2000 Illinois Fighting Illini Illinois 6 1 Minnesota 1 3 Purdue 6 6 Northwestern 2 5 Ohio State 9 2 Penn State 3 4 Illinois 5 1 Minnesota 2 2 Penn State 5 3 Purdue 8 5 Ohio State 9 4 Illinois 0 2 Penn State 6 5 Ohio State 0 4 Illinois 4 4 Illinois 5 2 Penn State 3 All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Jason Anderson Illinois P David Gassner Purdue C Chris Netwall Penn State 1B Nick Swisher 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 Most Outstanding Player Jason Anderson was named Most Outstanding Player. Anderson was a pitcher for Illinois. References Tournament Big Ten baseball tournament Category:Big Ten baseball tournament Big Ten baseball tournament Category:College baseball tournaments in Minnesota Category:Baseball competitions in Minneapolis