Classification Division Format Double-elimination | Teams 4 | |
Site Bill Theunissen Stadium (1948)
Mount Pleasant, MI Champions Eastern Michigan (1st title) Winning coach Ron Oestrike (1st title) | ||
The 1981 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 16–18 of that year. The top four regular season finishers of the league's ten teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Bill Theunissen Stadium in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. This was the first time the Mid-American Conference held a postseason tournament to determine a champion. Fourth seeded Eastern Michigan won the first tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1981 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.
Seeding and format
The top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage only. The teams played a double-elimination tournament.
References
1981 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA