1998 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament

1998 Mid-American Conference
baseball tournament
Teams	6
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Warren E. Steller Field; Bowling Green, OH;
Champions	Bowling Green (1st title)
Winning coach	Danny Schmitz (1st title)
MVP	Bob Niemet (Bowling Green)
	← 1997; baseball tournament; 1999 →;

The 1998 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament took place in May 1998. The top three regular season finishers from each division met in the double-elimination tournament held at Warren E. Steller Field on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. This was the tenth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. The top seed from the east, Bowling Green, won their first tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.^[2]^[3]

Quick facts Teams, Format ...

More information Conf., Overall ...

v t e	Conf.						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
East
Bowling Green ^x‍‍‡‍^y	17	–	10	–	0	.630	34	–	21	–	0	.618
Kent State ‍‍‍	17	–	12	–	0	.586	27	–	28	–	0	.491
Miami ‍‍‍	17	–	13	–	0	.567	33	–	26	–	0	.559
Ohio ‍‍‍	13	–	17	–	0	.433	31	–	24	–	0	.564
Akron ‍‍‍	10	–	18	–	0	.357	20	–	31	–	0	.392
Marshall ‍‍‍	9	–	21	–	0	.300	18	–	35	–	0	.340
West
Ball State ^x‍‍‍	23	–	8	–	0	.742	39	–	18	–	0	.684
Central Michigan ‍‍‍	23	–	9	–	0	.719	34	–	25	–	0	.576
Western Michigan ‍‍‍	16	–	16	–	0	.500	26	–	29	–	0	.473
Eastern Michigan ‍‍‍	14	–	16	–	0	.467	27	–	27	–	0	.500
Toledo ‍‍‍	13	–	17	–	0	.433	20	–	32	–	0	.385
Northern Illinois ‍‍‍	8	–	23	–	0	.258	10	–	30	–	1	.256

† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1998^[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Seeding and format