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1996 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

1996 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Akron (1st title)
Winning coach Dave Fross (1st title)
MVP Dave Yoder (Akron)
1996 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
Kent State † 21 – 7 – 0   .750     30 – 20 – 0   .600
Ohio 21 – 11 – 0   .656     34 – 23 – 0   .596
Toledo 18 – 14 – 0   .563     27 – 27 – 0   .500
Akron ‡y 18 – 14 – 0   .563     37 – 23 – 0   .617
Ball State 16 – 14 – 0   .533     32 – 20 – 1   .613
Central Michigan 16 – 14 – 0   .533     31 – 20 – 0   .608
Eastern Michigan 16 – 16 – 0   .500     26 – 29 – 0   .473
Bowling Green 14 – 17 – 0   .452     28 – 22 – 0   .560
Western Michigan 10 – 21 – 0   .323     17 – 34 – 0   .333
Miami 5 – 27 – 0   .156     12 – 40 – 0   .231
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1996; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1996 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place in May 1996. The top four regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament held at Gene Michael Field on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. This was the eighth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Fourth seeded Akron won their first tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The top four finishers based on conference winning percentage only, participated in the tournament. The teams played double-elimination tournament. Toledo claimed the third seed over Akron by tiebreaker.

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

Dave Yoder won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Yoder played for Akron.


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