2000 Big Ten baseball tournament


The 2000 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Siebert Field on the campus of University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from May 15 through 19. The top six teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the nineteenth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their third tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

Format and seeding

The 2000 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Purdue claimed the third seed over Illinois by tiebreaker. This was the first year of the expanded six team format, with all previous years being four team events.
TeamWLPCTGBSeed
208.7141
189.6671.52
1711.60733
1711.60734
1513.53655
1315.46476
1117.3939
1018.35710
918.33310.5
919.32111

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.
PosNameSchool
PJason AndersonIllinois
PDavid GassnerPurdue
CChris NetwallPenn State
1BNick SwisherOhio State
2BEric SpadtPenn State
3BCraig MarquieIllinois
OFJason TurnerOhio State
OFMichael CampoPenn State
OFNate SicklerPurdue
DHLuke AppertMinnesota

Most Outstanding Player

Jason Anderson was named Most Outstanding Player. Anderson was a pitcher for Illinois.