The 2005 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 six teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the twenty fourth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their seventh tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 2005 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Michigan claimed the fourth seed over Ohio State by tiebreaker. As in the previous three years, 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 20 12 .625 17 11 .607 19 13 .594 17 12 .586 17 12 .586 17 15 .531 14 18 .438 13 19 .406 10 18 .357 9 23 .281
Tournament
* - Indicates game required 13 innings. † - Indicates game required 11 innings.
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Dan DeLucia Ohio State P Matt Loberg Minnesota P Jim Brauer Michigan C Jake Elder Minnesota 1B Andy Hunter Minnesota 1B Eric Wolfe Purdue 2B Chris Getz Michigan 2B Joe Maciej Minnesota SS Mitch Hilligoss Purdue 3B Shawn Roof Illinois OF Mike Mee Minnesota OF Steve Caravati Ohio State OF Matt Angle Ohio State OF Wes Schirtzinger Ohio State DH Adam Abraham Michigan
Most Outstanding Player Steve Caravati was named Most Outstanding Player. Caravati was an outfielder for Ohio State.
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