The 1982 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Old Illinois Field on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, from May 21 through 23. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the second annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their first tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
Format and seeding The 1982 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage within each division. Ohio State claimed the top seed from the East by winning the season series over Michigan. The top seed from each division played the second seed from the opposite division in the first round. Team W L PCT GB Seed East Division 13 3 .813 13 3 .813 6 10 .375 6 10 .375 2 14 .083 West Division 14 2 .875 8 8 .500 7 9 .438 6 10 .375 5 11 .313
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Jeff Innis Illinois P Bill Cunningham Ohio State C Jeff King Ohio State 1B Tim Richardson Illinois 2B Gary Jost Minnesota SS Bill Piwnica Minnesota OF Jim Paciorek Michigan OF Terry Steinbach Minnesota OF John Orkis Ohio State OF Kirk Dixon Ohio State DH Tim Steinbach Minnesota
Most Outstanding Player Terry Steinbach and Jeff King were named co-Most Outstanding Players. Steinbach was an outfielder for Minnesota while King was a catcher for Ohio State.
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