The 1990 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Duane Banks Field on the campus of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa from May 15 through 19. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the tenth 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 1990 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
Format and seeding The 1990 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 Team W L PCT GB Seed 22 6 .786 19 9 .679 19 9 .679 16 12 .571 14 14 .500 14 14 .500 13 15 .464 8 19 .296 8 20 .286 6 21 .222
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P John DeJarld Iowa P Tim Schwarber Ohio State C Mark Dalesandro Illinois 1B Tom Anderson Iowa 2B Wil Parsons Illinois SS Bob Christensen Illinois 3B Keith Noreen Iowa OF Larry Sutton Illinois OF Chris Hatcher Iowa OF Mike Mulligan Ohio State DH Mike Durant Ohio State
Most Outstanding Player Bob Christensen was named Most Outstanding Player. Christensen was a shortstop for Illinois.
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