The 2003 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 second 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 2003 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 2003 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Using the same format from 2002, 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 24 6 .800 20 12 .625 16 14 .533 17 15 .531 15 14 .517 16 15 .516 13 19 .419 12 19 .387 10 19 .345 10 21 .323
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Josh Lewis Indiana P Glen Perkins Minnesota P Josh Newman Ohio State C Jake Elder Minnesota 1B David Roach Minnesota 2B Luke Appert Minnesota SS Brett Garrard Ohio State 3B David Harrick Minnesota OF Ben Pattee Minnesota OF Mike Rabin Ohio State OF Christian Snavely Ohio State
Most Outstanding Player Brett Garrard was named Most Outstanding Player. Garrard was a shortstop for Ohio State.
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