The 2000 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament was held at

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. This was the sixteenth annual

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. The won their second tournament championship, and second in three years, to claim the

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's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

Format and seeding

The Big East baseball tournament was a 6 team double elimination tournament in 2000. The top six regular season finishers were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only. Notre Dame claimed the second seed by winning the season series over Seton Hall.

Bracket

Jack Kaiser Award

Bobby Brownlie was the winner of the 2000 Jack Kaiser Award. Brownlie was a freshman pitcher for Rutgers.

References

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