1996 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament

1996 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
	Conf.						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
Kent State ‍†‍‍	21	–	7	–	0	.750	30	–	20	–	0	.600
Ohio ‍‍‍	21	–	11	–	0	.656	34	–	23	–	0	.596
Toledo ‍‍‍	18	–	14	–	0	.563	27	–	27	–	0	.500
Akron ‍‍‡‍^y	18	–	14	–	0	.563	37	–	23	–	0	.617
Ball State ‍‍‍	16	–	14	–	0	.533	32	–	20	–	1	.613
Central Michigan ‍‍‍	16	–	14	–	0	.533	31	–	20	–	0	.608
Eastern Michigan ‍‍‍	16	–	16	–	0	.500	26	–	29	–	0	.473
Bowling Green ‍‍‍	14	–	17	–	0	.452	28	–	22	–	0	.560
Western Michigan ‍‍‍	10	–	21	–	0	.323	17	–	34	–	0	.333
Miami ‍‍‍	5	–	27	–	0	.156	12	–	40	–	0	.231

† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1996 Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1996 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament took place in May 1996. The top four regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament held at Gene Michael Field on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. This was the eighth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Fourth seeded Akron won their first tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.