The 2006 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 fifth 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 2006 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 2006 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Illinois earned the fifth seed over Purdue by tiebreaker. As in the previous four 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 23 9 .719 21 11 .656 19 12 .613 17 14 .548 15 17 .469 15 17 .469 13 19 .406 13 19 .406 12 20 .375 11 21 .344
Tournament
* - Indicates game required 12 innings.
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Adam Abraham Michigan P Cole DeVries Minnesota P Cory Luebke Ohio State C Jeff Kunkel Michigan 1B Nick Recknagel Michigan 2B Luke MacLean Minnesota SS Dan Lyons Minnesota 3B A. J. Scheidt Michigan OF Eric Rose Michigan OF Kyle Baran Minnesota OF Antonie Mule Northwestern
Most Outstanding Player Adam Abraham was named Most Outstanding Player. Abraham was a pitcher for Michigan.
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