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2008 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament

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2008 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2007–08
Teams8
SiteCampus sites
Finals siteWilliam H. Pitt Center
Fairfield, Connecticut
ChampionsMount Saint Mary's (3rd title)
Winning coachMilan Brown (1st title)
MVPJean Cajou[1] (Mount St. Mary's)
← 2007
2009 →
2007–08 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
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

The 2008 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament took place 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.

Format

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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

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Quarterfinals
March 6
Semifinals
March 9
Finals
March 12
         
1 Robert Morris 64
8 Monmouth 50
1 Robert Morris 65
4 Mount St. Mary's 83
4 Mount St. Mary's 80
5 Quinnipiac 70
4 Mount St. Mary's 68
(Pairings are reseeded after the first round)
3 Sacred Heart 55
3 Sacred Heart 84
6 Central Connecticut 71
3 Sacred Heart 55
2 Wagner 49
2 Wagner 71
7 Long Island 62

All-tournament team

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Tournament MVP in bold.[3]

2008 NEC All-Tournament Team

Jean Cajou, MSM
Brice Brooks, SHU
Mark Porter, WAGNER
Drew Shubik, SHU
Jeremy Goode, MSM

Sources

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References

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  1. ^ Mount St. Mary's Tops Sacred Heart, 68–55, To Win Third NEC Men's Basketball Championship
  2. ^ ESPN – Conference tournament schedules, results
  3. ^ "NEC men's basketball record book" (PDF). NortheastConference.org. Retrieved October 29, 2015.