The 1986 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Siebert Field on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from May 16 through 18. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the sixth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their fourth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1986 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 1986 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. Minnesota claimed the top seed by tiebreaker. Wisconsin made its only appearance in the tournament field before dropping baseball in 1991. Team W L PCT GB Seed East Division 13 3 .813 9 7 .563 7 9 .438 7 9 .438 4 12 .250 West Division 10 5 .667 10 5 .667 9 7 .563 8 8 .500 2 13 .133
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Jim Abbott Michigan P Greg Mau Minnesota C Brad Barsness Wisconsin 1B Scott Cepicky Wisconsin 2B Steven Finken Michigan SS Mark Hess Minnesota 3B Jeff Goergen Minnesota OF Casey Close Michigan OF Tim McIntosh Minnesota OF Bob Shoulders Purdue DH Jay Kvasnicka Minnesota DH Eddy Woolwine Michigan
Most Outstanding Player Tim McIntosh was named Most Outstanding Player. McIntosh was an outfielder for Minnesota.
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