The 1985 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from May 17 through 19. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the fifth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their second tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1985 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
Format and seeding The 1985 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage within each division. The top seed from each division played the second seed from the opposite division in the first round. Ohio State and Minnesota claimed the second seeds from their respective divisions by tiebreakers. Team W L PCT GB Seed East Division 14 2 .875 8 8 .500 8 8 .500 8 8 .500 2 14 .125 West Division 12 4 .750 9 7 .563 9 7 .563 7 9 .438 3 13 .188
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Mike Clarkin Minnesota P Bill Cunningham Ohio State C Greg Ivarone Illinois 1B Alex Bauer Minnesota 2B C. J. Beshke Michigan SS Barry Larkin Michigan 3B Mike Pherson Minnesota OF John Beckman Minnesota OF Jim Orsag Illinois OF Pat Pohl Minnesota DH Ken Hayward Michigan
Most Outstanding Player Jon Beckman was named Most Outstanding Player. Beckman was an outfielder for Minnesota.
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