The 2007 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from May 15 through 19. The top six teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the twenty sixth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their eighth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 2007 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Minnesota earned the second seed over Penn State by tiebreaker. As in the previous five 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 21 7 .750 18 9 .667 20 10 .667 17 13 .567 16 14 .533 15 15 .500 15 16 .484 11 20 .355 9 23 .281 8 23 .258
Tournament
* - Indicates game required 10 innings. † - Indicates game required 11 innings.
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Bill Johnson Minnesota P Cory Luebke Ohio State P Jake Hale Ohio State C Kevin Carlson Minnesota 1B Bryan Jost Minnesota 2B Matt Cavagnaro Penn State SS Dan Lyons Minnesota 3B Tony Kennedy Ohio State OF Derek VanBuskirk Michigan OF Mike Mee Minnesota OF Kyle Baran Minnesota OF Matt Nohelty Minnesota
Most Outstanding Player Cory Luebke was named Most Outstanding Player. Luebke was a pitcher for Ohio State.
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