Spartan Baseball No. 8 Seed In B1G Tournament

Spartan Baseball No. 8 Seed In B1G Tournament

MSU will face top-seed Minnesota Wednesday, May 23

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State baseball will be the No. 8 seed in the upcoming Big Ten Baseball Tournament, which will be held May 23-27 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb.

The eight-team, double-elimination tournament begins Wednesday, May 23, with first-round games and continues through Sunday’s championship game on May 27. The tournament champion will earn the conference’s automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.

Eighth-seeded Michigan State will take on top-seed and regular-season champion Minnesota at 6 p.m. ET.

The first pitch of the 2018 Big Ten Tournament will take place at 10 a.m. ET Wednesday when No. 3 Michigan takes on sixth-seeded Iowa. Second-seeded Purdue will take the field at 2 p.m. on Wednesday against No. 7 Ohio State. The tournament will continue at 6 p.m. when No. 1 Minnesota plays No. 8 Michigan State. The final game on Wednesday will feature No. 4 Illinois and No. 5 Indiana at 10 p.m.

Once again this season, BTN will televise all games of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament live, with each game also available on the BTN2Go platform, either online at btn2go.com or through the BTN2Go app.

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