The 1991 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Trautman Field on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, from May 15 through 19. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the eleventh 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 1991 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
Format and seeding The 1991 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Indiana claimed the third seed and Northwestern earned the fourth seed by tiebreakers over Michigan. Team W L PCT GB Seed 20 8 .714 18 10 .643 15 12 .554 15 12 .554 15 13 .554 14 14 .500 13 15 .464 12 16 .429 11 17 .393 6 22 .214
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Tim Smith Ohio State P Tom Schwarber Ohio State C Joe Perona Northwestern 1B Jeff Monson Minnesota 2B Jeff Anderson Ohio State SS Brent Gates Minnesota 3B Jamie Taylor Ohio State OF Jeff Kopfer Minnesota OF Darren Schwankl Minnesota OF Mike Stein Northwestern OF Keith Klodnick Ohio State DH Tom Sandt Northwestern
Most Outstanding Player Keith Klodnick was named Most Outstanding Player. Klodnick was an outfielder for Ohio State.
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