1991 Big Ten Baseball Tournament

The 1991 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Trautman Field on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from May 15 through 19. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the eleventh annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Ohio State won their first tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1991 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament[3]

1991 Big Ten Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsOhio State (1st title)
Winning coachBob Todd (1st title)
MVPKeith Klodnick (Ohio State)
1991 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 21 Ohio State  ‍†‍‡‍y 20–8 .71453–13 .803
Minnesota  ‍‍‍y 18–10 .64337–27 .578
Indiana  ‍‍‍ 15–12 .55638–23 .623
Northwestern  ‍‍‍ 15–12 .55627–28 .491
Michigan  ‍‍‍ 15–13 .53634–23 .596
Purdue  ‍‍‍ 14–14 .50035–21 .625
Illinois  ‍‍‍ 13–15 .46426–30 .464
Michigan State  ‍‍‍ 12–16 .42928–25 .528
Iowa  ‍‍‍ 11–17 .39326–28 .481
Wisconsin  ‍‍‍ 6–22 .21416–36 .308
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1991[1][2]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding

The 1991 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Indiana claimed the third seed and Northwestern earned the fourth seed by tiebreakers over Michigan.[3]

TeamWLPCTGBSeed
Ohio State208.714
–
1
Minnesota1810.643
2
2
Indiana1512.554
4.5
3
Northwestern1512.554
4.5
4
Michigan1513.554
4.5
–
Purdue1414.500
6
–
Illinois1315.464
7
–
Michigan State1216.429
8
–
Iowa1117.393
9
–
Wisconsin622.214
14
–

Tournament
  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1 Ohio State 10  
4 Northwestern 9  
  1 Ohio State 15  
  2 Minnesota 5  
2 Minnesota 15
3 Indiana 11  
  1 Ohio State 3 —
  2 Minnesota 2 —
4 Northwestern 10  
3 Indiana 6  
  3 Minnesota 7
  4 Northwestern 5  

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[3]

PosNameSchool
PTim SmithOhio State
PTom SchwarberOhio State
CJoe PeronaNorthwestern
1BJeff MonsonMinnesota
2BJeff AndersonOhio State
SSBrent GatesMinnesota
3BJamie TaylorOhio State
OFJeff KopferMinnesota
OFDarren SchwanklMinnesota
OFMike SteinNorthwestern
OFKeith KlodnickOhio State
DHTom SandtNorthwestern

Most Outstanding Player

Keith Klodnick was named Most Outstanding Player. Klodnick was an outfielder for Ohio State.[3]

References
  1. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. p. 101. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
  2. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1991". Boyd's World. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
  3. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2013. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
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