The 2000 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Siebert Field on the campus of University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from May 15 through 19. The top six teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the nineteenth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their third tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 2000 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Purdue claimed the third seed over Illinois by tiebreaker. This was the first year of the expanded six team format, with all previous years being four team events. Team W L PCT GB Seed 20 8 .714 18 9 .667 17 11 .607 17 11 .607 15 13 .536 13 15 .464 11 17 .393 10 18 .357 9 18 .333 9 19 .321
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Jason Anderson Illinois P David Gassner Purdue C Chris Netwall Penn State 1B Nick Swisher Ohio State 2B Eric Spadt Penn State 3B Craig Marquie Illinois OF Jason Turner Ohio State OF Michael Campo Penn State OF Nate Sickler Purdue DH Luke Appert Minnesota
Most Outstanding Player Jason Anderson was named Most Outstanding Player. Anderson was a pitcher for Illinois.
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