Big Ten Conference Announces 2026 Baseball Tournament Bracket

ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference announced Saturday the bracket for the 2026 Big Ten Baseball Tournament presented by IFS.ai, scheduled for May 19-24 at Charles Schwab Field Omaha. Omaha will be hosting the tournament for the ninth time since 2014.

The 12-team tournament will determine the conference’s automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament. UCLA set the Big Ten record for conference wins in a season (28) to claim the Big Ten Championship and the tournament’s No. 1 seed. The tournament field features four teams ranked in the Top 25: consensus No. 1 UCLA, No. 11 Oregon, No. 13 USC and No. 19 Nebraska. 

This year’s tournament has a new format. 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.

Schedule - HERE

Tournament seedings:

1 UCLA (48-6, 28-2 Big Ten) 
2 Nebraska (41-14, 23-7 Big Ten) 
3 Oregon (38-15, 20-10 Big Ten)
4 USC (42-14, 20-10 Big Ten)
5 Purdue (35-18, 18-12 Big Ten) 
6 Ohio State (29-23, 18-12 Big Ten)
7 Michigan (32-22, 17-13 Big Ten) 
8 Iowa (32-21, 15-15 Big Ten)
9 Illinois (28-25, 14-16 Big Ten)
10 Rutgers (26-28, 13-17 Big Ten)
11 Washington (23-31, 12-18 Big Ten)
12 Michigan State (22-31, 11-19 Big Ten)