The 2004 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Siebert Field on the campus of the 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 twenty third annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. won their eighth tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 2004 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Michigan claimed the third seed over Michigan State by tiebreaker. As in the previous two years, the top two seeds received a single bye, with the four lower seeds playing opening round games. The top seed played the lowest seeded winner from the opening round, with the second seed playing the higher seed. Teams that lost in the opening round played an elimination game. Team W L PCT GB Seed 21 10 .677 19 12 .613 19 13 .594 19 13 .594 17 14 .548 17 15 .531 14 18 .438 12 20 .375 11 21 .344 9 22 .290
Tournament
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Glen Perkins Minnesota P Jay Gagner Minnesota P Jeffrey Carroll Ohio State C Derek Kinnear Ohio State 1B Andy Hunter Minnesota 2B Chris Getz Michigan SS Matt Fornasiere Minnesota 3B Ronnie Bourquin Ohio State OF Ryan Basham Michigan State OF Steve Carvatti Ohio State OF Jacob Howell Ohio State DH Brandon Roberts Michigan
Most Outstanding Player Glen Perkins was named Most Outstanding Player. Perkins was a pitcher for Minnesota.
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