1998 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament

1998 Mid-American Conference
baseball tournament
Teams6
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsBowling Green (1st title)
Winning coachDanny Schmitz (1st title)
MVPBob Niemet (Bowling Green)
1998 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT
East
Bowling Green  x‍‍y 17 10 0   .630 34 21 0   .618
Kent State  ‍‍‍ 17 12 0   .586 27 28 0   .491
Miami  ‍‍‍ 17 13 0   .567 33 26 0   .559
Ohio  ‍‍‍ 13 17 0   .433 31 24 0   .564
Akron  ‍‍‍ 10 18 0   .357 20 31 0   .392
Marshall  ‍‍‍ 9 21 0   .300 18 35 0   .340
West
Ball State  x‍‍‍ 23 8 0   .742 39 18 0   .684
Central Michigan  ‍‍‍ 23 9 0   .719 34 25 0   .576
Western Michigan  ‍‍‍ 16 16 0   .500 26 29 0   .473
Eastern Michigan  ‍‍‍ 14 16 0   .467 27 27 0   .500
Toledo  ‍‍‍ 13 17 0   .433 20 32 0   .385
Northern Illinois  ‍‍‍ 8 23 0   .258 10 30 1   .256
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 1998[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball


The 1998 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament took place in May 1998. The top three regular season finishers from each division met in the double-elimination tournament held at Warren E. Steller Field on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. This was the tenth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. The top seed from the east, Bowling Green, won their first tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2][3]

  1. ^ "All-time Standings" (PDF). Mid-American Conference. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
  2. ^ "Mid-American Conference Tournament History" (PDF). Mid-American Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 9, 2014. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
  3. ^ 2012 Record Book (PDF). Miami RedHawks. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 1, 2012. Retrieved May 17, 2013.