2008 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2008 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200708
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)
Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«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 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.

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
    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

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

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