The top three regular season finishers from each division met in the double-elimination tournament held at Ball Diamond on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
This was the eleventh Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion.
The top seed from the west, Bowling Green, won their second consecutive, and second overall, tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1999 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
[2][3] The top three finishers in each division, based on conference winning percentage only, participated in the tournament.
[4] Sean Ryan won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award.