The 1984 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Siebert Field on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from May 18 through 20. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the fourth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Michigan won their third tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
Format and seeding The 1984 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. Team W L PCT GB Seed East Division Michigan 11 5 .688 8 7 .533 8 8 .500 6 9 .400 6 10 .375 West Division 11 5 .688 9 6 .600 7 8 .467 6 7 .464 3 10 .231
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Scott Kamieniecki Michigan P John Trautwein Northwestern C Rich Blair Michigan 1B Ken Hayward Michigan 1B Mike Eddington Michigan State 2B Tom Hildebrand Northwestern SS Barry Larkin Michigan 3B John Stewart Northwestern OF Jeff Minick Michigan OF Kurt Zimmerman Michigan OF Mike Whitman Michigan State DH Ed Tompa Northwestern DH Tim McIntosh Minnesota
Most Outstanding Player Kurt Zimmerman was named Most Outstanding Player. Zimmerman was an outfielder for Michigan.
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