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2000 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

2000 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Miami (2nd title)
Winning coach Tracy Smith (1st title)
MVP John Lackaff (Miami)
2000 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
East
Kent State x 20 – 6 – 0   .769     40 – 18 – 0   .690
Ohio 18 – 10 – 0   .643     31 – 25 – 1   .553
Miami ‡y 16 – 12 – 0   .571     40 – 23 – 0   .635
Bowling Green 14 – 12 – 0   .538     29 – 24 – 1   .546
Akron 12 – 15 – 0   .444     26 – 30 – 0   .464
Marshall 7 – 20 – 0   .259     21 – 33 – 1   .391
West
Central Michigan x 18 – 8 – 0   .692     41 – 17 – 0   .707
Ball State 18 – 8 – 0   .692     34 – 23 – 0   .596
Northern Illinois 11 – 15 – 0   .423     24 – 33 – 0   .421
Western Michigan 10 – 18 – 0   .357     26 – 27 – 0   .491
Toledo 9 – 19 – 0   .321     21 – 33 – 0   .389
Eastern Michigan 9 – 19 – 0   .321     20 – 36 – 0   .357
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2000; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2000 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place in May 2000. The top three regular season finishers from each division met in the double-elimination tournament held at Gene Michael Field on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. This was the twelfth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Third seed from the east Miami won their second tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The top three finishers in each division, based on conference winning percentage only, participated in the tournament. The top seed in each division played the third seed from the opposite division in the first round. The teams played double-elimination tournament. This was the third year of the six team tournament. Central Michigan claimed the top seed from the West over Ball State by tiebreaker.

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

John Lackaff won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Lackaff played for Miami.


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