1983 Big Ten Baseball Tournament

The 1983 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 20 through 22. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the third annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Michigan won their second tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1983 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament[3]

1983 Big Ten Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsMichigan (2nd title)
Winning coachBud Middaugh (2nd title)
MVPBarry Larkin (Michigan)
1983 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT
East
No. 4 Michigan  x‍‍‡‍y 13–2–0 .86750–9–0 .847
Michigan State  ‍‍‍ 8–6–0 .57122–32–0 .407
Indiana  ‍‍‍ 6–7–0 .46226–21–0 .553
Purdue  ‍‍‍ 5–11–0 .31321–34–0 .382
Ohio State  ‍‍‍ 3–9–0 .25024–21–0 .533
West
Minnesota  x‍‍‍ 12–2–0 .85727–21–0 .563
Iowa  ‍‍‍ 7–7–0 .50032–31–0 .508
Northwestern  ‍‍‍ 6–9–0 .40032–20–2 .611
Illinois  ‍‍‍ 6–8–0 .42923–24–2 .490
Wisconsin  ‍‍‍ 6–10–0 .37522–17–0 .564
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1983[1][2]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding

The 1983 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage within each division. The top seed from each division played the second seed from the opposite division in the first round.[3]

TeamWLPCTGBSeed
East Division
Michigan132.867
–
1E
Michigan State86.571
4.5
2E
Indiana67.462
6
–
Purdue511.313
8.5
–
Ohio State39.250
8.5
–
West Division
Minnesota122.857
–
1W
Iowa77.500
5
2W
Northwestern69.400
6.5
–
Illinois69.400
6.5
–
Wisconsin610.375
7
–

Tournament

  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1E Michigan 1  
2W Iowa 0  
  1E Michigan 10  
  1W Minnesota 9  
1W Minnesota 14
2E Michigan State 1  
  1E Michigan 12 —
  2W Iowa 3 —
2W Iowa 6  
2E Michigan State 2  
  1W Minnesota 0
  2W Iowa 2  

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[3]

PosNameSchool
PPaul RieksIowa
PRich StollMichigan
1BKen HaywardMichigan
2BJeff JacobsonMichigan
SSBarry LarkinMichigan
OFCraig ContiIowa
OFTim SnowbergerIowa
OFDale SklarMichigan
OFTerry SteinbachMinnesota
DHChuck FroningMichigan

Most Outstanding Player

Barry Larkin was named Most Outstanding Player. Larkin was a shortstop for Michigan.[3]

References

  1. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. p. 101. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  2. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1983". Boyd's World. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  3. 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
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