The 2008 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 six teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the twenty seventh 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 2008 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding The 2008 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. As in the previous six 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 26 5 .839 21 10 .677 17 15 .531 16 15 .516 15 15 .500 15 17 .469 14 18 .438 12 18 .400 10 21 .323 10 22 .312
Tournament
* - Indicates game required 10 innings.
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Kevin Manson Illinois P Chris Fetter Michigan P Zach Putnam Michigan P Michael Powers Michigan C Dan Black Purdue 1B Jerrud Sabourin Indiana 2B Cory Kovanda Ohio State SS Tyler Cox Indiana 3B Adam Abraham Michigan OF Chris Hervey Indiana OF Kevin Cislo Michigan OF Jon Moore Purdue DH Michael Earley Indiana DH Rob Yodice Penn State
Most Outstanding Player Michael Powers was named Most Outstanding Player. Powers was a pitcher for Michigan.
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