The 1996 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Beaver Field on the campus of Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania from May 15 through 19. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the sixteenth 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 1996 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 1996 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Team W L PCT GB Seed 19 8 .704 18 8 .692 17 10 .630 17 11 .607 15 12 .556 15 13 .536 13 13 .500 10 18 .357 8 19 .296 4 24 .143
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Jason Wollard Illinois P Dan Ferrell Indiana C Matt Braughler Indiana 1B Phil Bertolotti Penn State 2B Brian McClure Illinois SS Josh Klimek Illinois 3B Mike Crotty Indiana OF Danny Rhodes Illinois OF Ryan Dillon Indiana OF Mike Spisak Indiana OF Jason Alcaraz Michigan DH Todd McClure Illinois
Most Outstanding Player Dan Ferrell was named Most Outstanding Player. Ferrell was a pitcher for Indiana.
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