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1997 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

1997 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Ohio (1st title)
Winning coach Jim Carbone (1st title)
MVP Bart Leahy (Ohio)
1997 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Ohio †‡y 22 – 9   .710     43 – 18   .705
Ball State 21 – 10   .677     40 – 19   .678
Kent State 18 – 13   .581     29 – 28   .509
Miami 17 – 13   .567     27 – 28   .491
Eastern Michigan 17 – 14   .548     29 – 25   .537
Central Michigan 14 – 14   .500     29 – 20   .592
Akron 31 – 23   .574     14 – 16   .467
Bowling Green 13 – 17   .433     24 – 27   .471
Toledo 9 – 20   .310     18 – 33   .353
Western Michigan 6 – 24   .200     14 – 39   .264
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1997; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1997 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place in May 1997. The top four regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament held at Trautwein Field on the campus of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. This was the ninth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Top seeded Ohio won their first tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1997 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. This was the final year of the four team format, as the field expanded to six teams in 1998.

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

Bart Leahy won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Leahy played for Ohio.


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