MSU Is No. 12 Seed In 2026 B1G Baseball Tournament

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State baseball earned the No. 12 seed in the 2026 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament, Presented by IFS.ai, which will be held Tuesday-Sunday, May 19-24, at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska, site of the NCAA Men's College World Series.

The Spartans are the No. 12 seed, and will face No. 5 seed Purdue in the tournament's opening game on Tuesday, May 19, at 10 a.m. ET / 9 a.m. CT, in game one of the tournament.

The first three days of the tournament will feature double-elimination brackets, pairing eight teams seeded No. 5-12. Four games will be held on Tuesday, May 19, and Wednesday, May 20, and two games contested on Thursday, May 21, to produce four qualifiers.

The four advancing teams will face seeds No. 1-4 in single-elimination quarterfinals on Friday, May 22. Semifinals take place Saturday, May 23, followed by the championship game on Sunday, May 24.

Michigan State finished regular-season action 23-30 overall and 11-19 in B1G action, making it to the B1G Tournament for the second-straight season and the third time in the last four years (2026, 2025, 2023).

The Spartans were also the No. 12 seed last season and were the No. 8 seed in 2023 when it was an eight-team tournament. Overall this is Michigan State's 17th all-time appearance and 10th under head coach Jake Boss Jr. in his 18th season at the helm of the Spartans.

MSU drew its bye in the Big Ten Conference schedule on the final weekend, and hosted ISU from the Missouri Valley Conference over the weekend, as the Redbirds also had a bye in their league schedule, this weekend in a three-game weekend series, taking the series with wins on Thursday and Saturday.

With Saturday's Victory for MSU, head coach Jake Boss Jr. passed legendary head coach Danny Litwhiler for number two on the Michigan State Baseball Coaches All-Time Wins List with his 490th win at MSU.

Michigan State and Purdue played a three-game weekend series this season on March 27-29 in East Lansing, with the Spartans winning the series opener, 4-3, before the Boilermakers steamed back to win game two, 16-13, then won the rubber match, 11-4.

The Spartans are 1-2 all-time vs. the Boilermakers in the Big Ten Tournament, but haven't faced each other since 2011. MSU lost to Purdue in 2004 and 2009, before winning in 2011, in the Spartans' tournament opening round win on the way to the 2011 B1G Tournament championship game.

The winner of the game between MSU and Purdue will face the winner of game two between No. 8 seed Iowa and No. 9 seed Illinois, on Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. CT, while the MSU-PUR loser faces the Iowa-ILL loser Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. ET / 9 a.m. CT.

The Big Ten Network will broadcast every game of the tournament. Games will also be available on the FOX Sports App. Single-game and all-session packages are on sale at www.bigten.org/baseballtickets.

Michigan State's schedule is subject to change, fans can stay tuned to MSUSpartans.com and @MSUBaseball on Twitter for schedule updates, along with follow action with "Watch Live," "Listen Live" and "Live Stats" links where available.

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