2001 Big Ten baseball tournament

2001 Big Ten Conference
baseball tournament
Teams	6
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Bill Davis Stadium; Columbus, OH;
Champions	Minnesota (7th title)
Winning coach	John Anderson (7th title)
MVP	Jack Hannahan (Minnesota)
	← 2000; baseball tournament; 2002 →;

2001 Big Ten Conference baseball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Ohio State ‍†‍‍^y	20	–	7	.741	43	–	18	.705
Purdue ‍‍‍	19	–	7	.731	32	–	24	.571
Minnesota ‍‍‡‍^y	19	–	8	.704	39	–	21	.650
Penn State ‍‍‍	15	–	11	.577	29	–	29	.500
Illinois ‍‍‍	13	–	14	.481	29	–	28	.509
Michigan ‍‍‍	10	–	14	.417	28	–	28	.500
Northwestern ‍‍‍	11	–	17	.393	24	–	32	.429
Michigan State ‍‍‍	9	–	17	.346	29	–	27	.518
Iowa ‍‍‍	8	–	17	.320	19	–	29	.396
Indiana ‍‍‍	7	–	19	.269	24	–	31	.436

x – Division champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 2001^[1]^[2] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2001 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament was held at Bill Davis Stadium on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, from May 15 through 19. The top six teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the twentieth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Minnesota won their seventh tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.^[3]

Format and seeding

The 2001 tournament was a 6-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only.^[3]

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.^[3]

Jack Hannahan was named Most Outstanding Player. Hannahan was a third baseman for Minnesota.^[3]

^ 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. p. 101. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
^ "College Baseball Conference Standings – 2001". Boyd's World. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 2012 Big Ten Baseball Record Book (PDF). Big Ten Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 28, 2013. Retrieved March 30, 2013.