2009 Big Ten baseball tournament

The 2009 Big Ten baseball tournament was held at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio, from May 20 through 24. Third seeded Indiana won their second tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.^[3]

2009 Big Ten Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	6
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Huntington Park (Columbus, Ohio) Columbus, OH
Champions	Indiana (2nd title)
Winning coach	Tracy Smith (1st title)
MVP	Matt Bashore (Indiana)
← 2008 baseball tournament 2010 →

2009 Big Ten Conference baseball standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 25 Ohio State  ‍†‍‍y	18	–	6		.750			42	–	19		.689
No. 26 Minnesota  ‍‍‍y	17	–	6		.739			40	–	19		.678
Indiana  ‍‍‡‍y	16	–	7		.696			32	–	27		.542
Illinois  ‍‍‍	16	–	8		.667			34	–	20		.630
Michigan State  ‍‍‍	13	–	11		.542			23	–	31		.426
Purdue  ‍‍‍	11	–	12		.478			25	–	26		.490
Michigan  ‍‍‍	9	–	15		.375			30	–	25		.545
Penn State  ‍‍‍	8	–	16		.333			25	–	26		.490
Northwestern  ‍‍‍	5	–	17		.227			14	–	35		.286
Iowa  ‍‍‍	4	–	19		.174			16	–	35		.314
x – Division champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 2009[1][2] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding

The 2009 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. As in the previous seven years, the top two seeds received a single bye, with the four lower seeds playing opening round games. The top seed played the lowest seeded winner from the opening round, with the second seed playing the higher seed. Teams that lost in the opening round played an elimination game.^[3]

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	Seed
Ohio State	18	6	.750	–	1
Minnesota	17	6	.739	.5	2
Indiana	16	7	.696	1.5	3
Illinois	16	8	.667	2	4
Michigan State	13	11	.542	5	5
Purdue	11	12	.478	6.5	6
Michigan	9	15	.375	9	–
Penn State	8	16	.333	10	–
Northwestern	5	17	.227	12	–
Iowa	4	19	.174	13.5	–

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Results

	Upper round 1					Upper round 2					Upper final										Final
						1	Ohio State	7
	5	Michigan State	5			4	Illinois	4
	4	Illinois	16								1	Ohio State	3
											3	Indiana	13
						2	Minnesota	3
	6	Purdue	1			3	Indiana	12
	3	Indiana	9
																					3	Indiana	13
																					2	Minnesota	2
	Lower round 1					Lower round 2					Lower round 3					Lower final
																2	Minnesota	9
											2	Minnesota	13			1	Ohio State	6
						6	Purdue	3			4	Illinois	4
	6	Purdue	12			2	Minnesota	12
	5	Michigan State	9

* - Indicats game required extra innings.

All-Tournament Team

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

Pos	Name	School
P	Eric Arnett	Indiana
P	Matt Bashore	Indiana
P	Tim Buske	Minnesota
C	Dan Burkhart	Ohio State
1B	Nick O'Shea	Minnesota
2B	Derek McCallum	Minnesota
3B	Vince Gonzalez	Indiana
SS	Jake Dunning	Indiana
OF	Pete Cappetta	Illinois
OF	Kipp Schutz	Indiana
OF	Eric Decker	Minnesota
DH	Alex Dickerson	Indiana

Most Outstanding Player

Matt Bashore was named Most Outstanding Player. Bashore was a pitcher for Indiana.^[3]