The 2001

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was held at

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on the campus of

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, from May 15 through 19. The top six teams from the regular season participated in the

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, the twentieth annual tournament sponsored by the

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to determine the league champion. won their seventh tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the

2001 NCAA Division I baseball tournament The 2001 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was played at the end of the 2001 NCAA Division I baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series ...

Format and seeding

The 2001 tournament was a 6-team

, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only.

Tournament

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Most Outstanding Player

Jack Hannahan John Joseph "The Bangladesh Hammer" Hannahan IV (born March 4, 1980) is an American former professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Ind ...

was named Most Outstanding Player. Hannahan was a third baseman for Minnesota.

References

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Big Ten baseball tournament

Big Ten baseball tournament The Big Ten baseball tournament is the conference championship tournament in college baseball, baseball for the NCAA Division I (NCAA), Division I Big Ten Conference. The winner of the tournament receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCA ...