2012 Big Ten baseball tournament

2012 Big Ten Conference
baseball tournament
Teams6
FormatDouble-elimination with
single bye for top two teams
Finals site
ChampionsPurdue (1st title)
Winning coachDoug Schreiber (1st title)
MVPKevin Plawecki (Purdue)
TelevisionBTN
2012 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 15 Purdue  ‍†‍‡‍y 17 – 7   .708 45 – 14   .763
Indiana  ‍‍‍ 16 – 8   .667 32 – 28   .533
Penn State  ‍‍‍ 15 – 9   .625 29 – 27   .518
Nebraska  ‍‍‍ 14 – 10   .583 35 – 23   .603
Michigan State  ‍‍‍y 13 – 11   .542 37 – 23   .617
Ohio State  ‍‍‍ 11 – 13   .458 33 – 27   .550
Illinois  ‍‍‍ 11 – 13   .458 28 – 25   .528
Minnesota  ‍‍‍ 11 – 13   .458 29 – 27   .518
Iowa  ‍‍‍ 10 – 14   .417 23 – 27   .460
Michigan  ‍‍‍ 8 – 16   .333 22 – 34   .393
Northwestern  ‍‍‍ 6 – 18   .250 18 – 36   .333
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 2012[1]
Rankings from Coaches' Poll


The 2012 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio, from May 23 through 26. The top six teams from the regular season participate in the double-elimination tournament to determine the league champion. Purdue won their first tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. This was also Purdue's second year ever winning a conference championship in baseball, having won the conference regular season in 1909.[2]

Format and seeding

The 2012 tournament will be a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage. The top two seeds will receive a single bye into the semifinals (2nd Round). The 1 seed will play the lowest seeded Round 1 winner, while the 2 seed will play the highest seeded Round 1 winner.

Team W L PCT GB Seed
Purdue 17 7 .708 – 1
Indiana 16 8 .667 1 2
Penn State 15 9 .625 2 3
Nebraska 14 10 .583 3 4
Michigan State 13 11 .542 4 5
Ohio State 11 13 .458 6 6
Illinois 11 13 .458 6 –
Minnesota 11 13 .458 6 –
Iowa 10 14 .417 7 –
Michigan 8 16 .333 9 –
Northwestern 6 18 .250 11 –

Tournament

Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
1Purdue5
5Michigan State106Ohio State4
4Nebraska91Purdue3
2Indiana0
2Indiana6
6Ohio State125Michigan State4
3Penn State5
1Purdue6x
2Indiana5x
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
5Michigan State3*
6Ohio State22Indiana4*
4Nebraska25Michigan State6
4Nebraska126Ohio State6
3Penn State3

* - Indicates game required 11 innings.

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Additional honorees at first base and shortstop were due to ties.[2]

Pos Name School
P Jonny Hoffman Indiana
P Tony Bucciferro Michigan State
P Lance Breedlove Purdue
C Kevin Plawecki Purdue
1B Ryan Krill Michigan State
1B Richard Stock Nebraska
2B Micah Johnson Indiana
3B Cameron Perkins Purdue
SS Kirby Pellant Ohio State
SS David Miller Purdue
OF Will Nolden Indiana
OF Anthony Cheky Michigan State
OF Barrett Serrato Purdue
DH Michael Pritchard Nebraska

Most Outstanding Player

Kevin Plawecki was named Most Outstanding Player. Plawecki was a junior catcher for Purdue, and also claimed the regular season Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year award.[2]

References

  1. ^ "2012 Baseball Standings and Leaders". bigten.org. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "Purdue Wins First Big Ten Tournament Title". purduesports.com. May 27, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2013.