The No. 4 seed Michigan Wolverines will take on the No. 5 seed Iowa Hawkeyes in the first round of the Big Ten baseball tournament.
The eight-team, double-elimination tournament will determine the conference’s automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament. Given that no Big Ten teams are ranked in the top-25 of Baseball America’s D1 rankings at the moment, it will most likely be imperative to win the conference tournament if Michigan (or any other Big Ten team) wants to make the NCAA Tournament. Illinois, which won the Big Ten Championship outright, earned the No.