1998 Big Ten baseball tournament

August 2023 June 2026 1998 Big Ten Conference 4 Double-elimination Illinois Field Champaign, IL 1998 Minnesota Golden Gophers Minnesota 6th John Anderson 6th Mark Groebner Minnesota 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. 1998 Minnesota Golden Gophers Minnesota won their sixth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1998 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 23, 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 1998 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Team W L PCT GB Seed 1998 Illinois Fighting Illini Illinois 19 5 .792 – 1 1998 Minnesota Golden Gophers Minnesota 19 9 .679 2 2 1998 Ohio State Buckeyes Ohio State 18 9 .667 2.5 3 1998 Penn State Nittany Lions Penn State 15 11 .577 5 4 1998 Indiana Hoosiers Indiana 14 14 .500 7 – 1998 Michigan Wolverines Michigan 9 15 .375 10 – 1998 Iowa Hawkeyes Iowa 9 15 .375 10 – 1998 Northwestern Wildcats Northwestern 10 18 .357 11 – 1998 Michigan State Spartans Michigan State 8 16 .333 11 – 1998 Purdue Boilermakers Purdue 9 18 .333 11.5 – Tournament 1 1998 Illinois Fighting Illini Illinois 2 4 1998 Penn State Nittany Lions Penn State 5 2 1998 Minnesota Golden Gophers Minnesota 10 3 1998 Ohio State Buckeyes Ohio State 3 1 Illinois 9 3 Ohio State 8 4 Penn State 5 2 Minnesota 14 4 Penn State 5 1 Illinois 11 2 Minnesota 9 1 Illinois 8 All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Ben Birk Minnesota P Nate Bump Penn State C Jeremy Megen Minnesota 1B Robb Quinlan Minnesota 2B D. J. Svihlik Illinois SS Rick Brosseau Minnesota 3B Craig Marquie Illinois OF Danny Rhodes Illinois OF Dan O'Neill Illinois OF Mark Groebner Minnesota DH Adam Horton Minnesota Most Outstanding Player Mark Groebner was named Most Outstanding Player. Groebner was an outfielder for Minnesota. References Tournament Big Ten baseball tournament Category:Big Ten baseball tournament Big Ten baseball tournament