The 2002 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Siebert Field on the campus of the 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 twenty first annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their fifth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 2002 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Northwestern claimed the sixth seed over Illinois by tiebreaker. For the first time, the top two seeds received a single bye, with the four lower seeds playing opening round games. The top seed played the lowest seeded winner from the opening round, with the second seed playing the higher seed. Teams that lost in the opening round played an elimination game. Team W L PCT GB Seed 18 10 .643 18 11 .621 16 12 .571 15 14 .517 15 16 .484 14 15 .483 14 15 .483 14 17 .452 13 19 .406 11 19 .367
Tournament
* - Indicates game required 10 innings.
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Gabe Ribas Northwestern P E. J. Laratta Ohio State P Scott Lewis Ohio State C Joe Wilkins Ohio State 1B Brad Carlson Iowa 2B Luke Appert Minnesota SS Eric Blakeley Indiana 3B Drew Anderson Ohio State OF Bob Malek Michigan State OF Doug Deeds Ohio State OF Doug Dendinger Ohio State DH Ben Pattee Minnesota
Most Outstanding Player Joe Wilkins was named Most Outstanding Player. Wilkins was a catcher for Ohio State.
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