1983 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament

1983 Mid-American Conference
baseball tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsMiami (1st title)
Winning coachJohn Pavlisko (1st title)
1983 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT
Eastern Division
Ohio  x‍‍‍ 10 4 0   .714 26 19 0   .578
Miami  ‍‍y 8 6 0   .571 36 15 0   .706
Bowling Green  ‍‍‍ 9 7 0   .563 32 17 0   .653
Kent State  ‍‍‍ 6 9 0   .400 44 16 0   .733
Toledo  ‍‍‍ 3 10 0   .231 23 24 0   .489
Western Division
Western Michigan  x‍‍‍ 8 4 0   .667 26 21 0   .553
Eastern Michigan  ‍‍‍ 5 4 1   .550 29 26 1   .527
Central Michigan  ‍‍‍ 5 6 0   .455 31 19 0   .620
Ball State  ‍‍‍ 5 6 0   .455 23 23 1   .500
Northern Illinois  ‍‍‍ 3 7 1   .318 23 23 1   .500
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 1983[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball


The 1983 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament took place from May 19 through 21. The top two regular-season finishers from each division met in the double-elimination tournament held at Hyames Field in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This was the third Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Fourth seeded Miami won their first tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1983 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2][3]

  1. ^ "All-time Standings" (PDF). Mid-American Conference. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  2. ^ "Mid-American Conference Tournament History" (PDF). Mid-American Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 9, 2014. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  3. ^ 2012 Record Book (PDF). Miami RedHawks. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 1, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2013.