2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament


The 2008 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 seventh 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 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

Format and seeding

The 2008 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. As in the previous six 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.
TeamWLPCTGBSeed
265.839
–
1
2110.677
5
2
1715.531
9.5
3
1615.516
10
4
1515.500
11
5
1517.469
12
6
1418.438
12.5
–
1218.400
13.5
–
1021.323
16
–
1022.312
16.5
–

Tournament

* - Indicates game required 10 innings.

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.
PosNameSchool
PKevin MansonIllinois
PChris FetterMichigan
PZach PutnamMichigan
PMichael PowersMichigan
CDan BlackPurdue
1BJerrud SabourinIndiana
2BCory KovandaOhio State
SSTyler CoxIndiana
3BAdam AbrahamMichigan
OFChris HerveyIndiana
OFKevin CisloMichigan
OFJon MoorePurdue
DHMichael EarleyIndiana
DHRob YodicePenn State

Most Outstanding Player

Michael Powers was named Most Outstanding Player. Powers was a pitcher for Michigan.