The 1987 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 15 through 19. The top two teams from the regular season in each division participated in the double-elimination tournament, the seventh annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their fifth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
Format and seeding The 1987 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. Iowa claimed the second seed from the West by tiebreaker. Team W L PCT GB Seed East Division 13 3 .813 Purdue 10 6 .625 7 9 .438 6 10 .375 4 12 .250 West Division 12 4 .750 9 7 .563 9 7 .563 5 11 .313 5 11 .313
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Greg Everson Michigan P Chris Lutz Michigan P Andy Swain Purdue C Darrin Campbell Michigan 1B Phil Price Michigan 2B Bob Gerhard Purdue SS Arci Cianfrocco Purdue 3B Bill St. Peter Michigan OF Jeff Allison Purdue OF Jeff Durham Michigan OF Luis Ramirez Iowa DH Brett Roach Purdue
Most Outstanding Player Greg Everson was named Most Outstanding Player. McIntosh was an outfielder for Michigan.
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