2009 Big Ten Baseball Tournament


The 2009 Big Ten Baseball Tournament was held at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio from May 20 through 24. Third seeded won their second tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

Format and seeding

The 2009 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. As in the previous seven 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
186.750–1
176.739.52
167.6961.53
168.66724
1311.54255
1112.4786.56
915.3759–
816.33310–
517.22712–
419.17413.5–

Results

* - Indicats game required extra innings.

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.
PosNameSchool
PEric ArnettIndiana
PMatt BashoreIndiana
PTim BuskeMinnesota
CDan BurkhartOhio State
1BNick O'SheaMinnesota
2BDerek McCallumMinnesota
3BVince GonzalezIndiana
SSJake DunningIndiana
OFPete CappettaIllinois
OFKipp SchutzIndiana
OFEric DeckerMinnesota
DHAlex DickersonIndiana

Most Outstanding Player

Matt Bashore was named Most Outstanding Player. Bashore was a pitcher for Indiana.