2008 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2008 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 6–12, 2008 at campus sites.[2] Mount Saint Mary's won the tournament to receive an automatic berth to the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
| 2008 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2007–08 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Site | Campus sites |
| Finals site | William H. Pitt Center Fairfield, Connecticut |
| Champions | Mount Saint Mary's (3rd title) |
| Winning coach | Milan Brown (1st title) |
| MVP | Jean Cajou[1] (MSM) |
| 2007–08 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robert Morris | 16 | – | 2 | .889 | 26 | – | 8 | .765 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wagner | 15 | – | 3 | .833 | 23 | – | 8 | .742 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sacred Heart | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 18 | – | 14 | .563 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mount St. Mary's† | 11 | – | 7 | .611 | 19 | – | 15 | .559 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Quinnipiac | 11 | – | 7 | .611 | 15 | – | 15 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Central Connecticut | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 14 | – | 16 | .467 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Long Island | 7 | – | 11 | .389 | 15 | – | 15 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monmouth | 4 | – | 14 | .222 | 7 | – | 24 | .226 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fairleigh Dickinson | 4 | – | 14 | .222 | 8 | – | 20 | .286 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. Francis (NY) | 4 | – | 14 | .222 | 7 | – | 22 | .241 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saint Francis (PA) | 4 | – | 14 | .222 | 6 | – | 23 | .207 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2008 NEC Tournament winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Format
The top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Northeast Conference receive a berth in the conference tournament. After the conference season, teams are seeded by conference record. The semifinals matchups will be the highest and lowest remaining seeds in one game and the other two seeds in the other game. All games are held at the home court of the higher-seeded team.
Bracket
| Quarterfinals March 6 |
Semifinals March 9 |
Finals March 12 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Robert Morris | 64 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Monmouth | 50 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Robert Morris | 65 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Mount Saint Mary's | 83 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Mount Saint Mary's | 80 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Quinnipiac | 70 | |||||||||||
| (Pairings are reseeded after the first round) | 4 | Mount Saint Mary's | 68 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Sacred Heart | 55 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Sacred Heart | 84 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Central Connecticut St | 71 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Sacred Heart | 55 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Wagner | 49 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Wagner | 71 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Long Island | 62 | |||||||||||
All-tournament team
Tournament MVP in bold.[3]
| 2008 NEC All-Tournament Team | ||||||
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Jean Cajou, MSM | ||||||
Sources
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References
- Mount St. Mary's Tops Sacred Heart, 68–55, To Win Third NEC Men's Basketball Championship
- ESPN – Conference tournament schedules, results
- "NEC men's basketball record book" (PDF). NortheastConference.org. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
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