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2001 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

2001 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Kent State (3rd title)
Winning coach Rick Rembielak (1st title)
MVP John VanBenschoten (Kent State)
2001 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Bowling Green x 18 – 9   .667     36 – 18   .667
Ohio 16 – 11   .593     29 – 25   .537
Kent State ‡y 16 – 11   .593     32 – 30   .516
Miami 16 – 12   .571     35 – 25   .583
Marshall 11 – 17   .393     24 – 29   .453
Akron 9 – 18   .333     16 – 34   .320
Buffalo 5 – 23   .179     11 – 39   .220
West
Ball State x 21 – 5   .808     34 – 23   .596
Central Michigan 16 – 12   .571     35 – 24   .593
Eastern Michigan 14 – 12   .538     20 – 33   .377
Western Michigan 15 – 13   .536     26 – 28   .481
Northern Illinois 10 – 17   .370     28 – 27   .509
Toledo 10 – 17   .370     26 – 29   .473
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2001; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2001 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place in May 2001. The top six regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament held at Ball Diamond on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. This was the thirteenth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Fourth seed Kent State won their third tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The winner of each division claimed the top two seeds, while the next four finishers based on conference winning percentage only, regardless of division, participated in the tournament. The teams played double-elimination tournament. This was the fourth year of the six team tournament.

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

John VanBenschoten won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. VanBenschoten played for Kent State.


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