The 1998 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Illinois Field on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, from May 15 through 19. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the eighteenth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their sixth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 1998 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 5 .792 19 9 .679 18 9 .667 15 11 .577 14 14 .500 9 15 .375 9 15 .375 10 18 .357 8 16 .333 9 18 .333
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Ben Birk Minnesota P Nate Bump Penn State C Jeremy Megen Minnesota 1B Robb Quinlan Minnesota 2B D. J. Svihlik Illinois SS Rick Brosseau Minnesota 3B Craig Marquie Illinois OF Danny Rhodes Illinois OF Dan O'Neill Illinois OF Mark Groebner Minnesota DH Adam Horton Minnesota
Most Outstanding Player Mark Groebner was named Most Outstanding Player. Groebner was an outfielder for Minnesota.
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