2008 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament

2008 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
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] (Mount St. Mary's)
Northeast Conference men's basketball tournaments

2007–08 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings

v t e	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

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 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

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

• Tournament Bracket

References

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.