1989 Big Ten baseball tournament

The 1989 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from May 19 through 20. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the ninth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Illinois won their first tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. Illinois was the first team other than Michigan and Minnesota to win the event.^[3]

1989 Big Ten Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	4
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Ray Fisher Stadium Ann Arbor, MI
Champions	Illinois (1st title)
Winning coach	Augie Garrido (1st title)
MVP	Rich Capparelli (Illinois)
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1989 Big Ten Conference baseball standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 12 Michigan  ‍†‍‍y	21	–	6		.778			49	–	16		.754
Iowa  ‍‍‍	17	–	11		.607			37	–	20		.649
No. 24 Illinois  ‍‍‡‍y	17	–	11		.607			42	–	16		.724
Ohio State  ‍‍‍	16	–	12		.571			34	–	27		.557
Minnesota  ‍‍‍	15	–	12		.556			31	–	22		.585
Northwestern  ‍‍‍	15	–	13		.536			26	–	30		.464
Michigan State  ‍‍‍	13	–	15		.464			25	–	26		.490
Purdue  ‍‍‍	11	–	17		.393			34	–	25		.576
Wisconsin  ‍‍‍	9	–	19		.321			22	–	37		.373
Indiana  ‍‍‍	5	–	23		.179			34	–	26		.567
x – Division champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1989[1][2] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding

The 1989 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Iowa claimed the second seed by tiebreaker over Illinois^[3]

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	Seed
Michigan	21	6	.778	–	1
Iowa	17	11	.607	4.5	2
Illinois	17	11	.607	4.5	3
Ohio State	16	12	.571	5.5	4
Minnesota	15	12	.556	6	–
Northwestern	15	13	.536	6.5	–
Michigan State	13	15	.464	7.5	–
Purdue	11	17	.393	10.5	–
Wisconsin	9	19	.321	12.5	–
Indiana	5	23	.179	16.5	–

Tournament

	Upper round 1					Upper final					Final
	1	Michigan	7
	4	Ohio State	1
						1	Michigan	1
						3	Illinois	7
	2	Iowa	7
	3	Illinois	8
											3	Illinois	2
											1	Michigan	0
	Lower round 1					Lower final
						1	Michigan	6
	4	Ohio State	4			4	Ohio State	0
	2	Iowa	2

All-Tournament Team

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

Pos	Name	School
P	Rich Capparelli	Illinois
P	Russell Brock	Michigan
C	Mark Dalesandro	Illinois
1B	Tom Eiterman	Ohio State
2B	Wil Parsons	Illinois
SS	Bob Christensen	Illinois
OF	Don Cuchran	Illinois
OF	Sean Mulligan	Illinois
OF	Jim Durham	Michigan
DH	Kourtney Thompson	Michigan

Most Outstanding Player

Rich Capparelli was named Most Outstanding Player. Capparelli was a pitcher for Illinois.^[3]