2008 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament

2008 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200708
Teams 8
Site Union Multipurpose Activity Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Champions Oral Roberts (3rd title)
Winning coach Scott Sutton (3rd title)
MVP Moses Ehambe (Oral Roberts)
Top scorer George Hill IUPUI
(72 points)
Summit League Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2007 2009»

The 2008 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament was won by Oral Roberts. It took place March 8–11, 2008[1] at the Union Multipurpose Activity Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

All-tournament team

Format

The top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Summit League receive a berth in the conference tournament. After the 18 game conference season, teams are seeded by conference record with the following tie-breakers:

2008 seeds

Seed Team Conference Overall
W L Pct. GB W L Pct.
1 x-Oral Roberts 16 2 .889 24 8 .750
2 IUPUI 15 3 .833 1 26 7 .788
3 Oakland 11 7 .611 5 17 14 .548
North Dakota State 10 8 .556 6 16 13 .552
4 Southern Utah 9 9 .500 7 11 19 .367
5 IPFW 9 9 .500 7 14 17 .452
6 Western Illinois 7 11 .389 9 12 18 .400
7 UMKC 6 12 .333 10 11 21 .343
8 Centenary 4 14 .222 12 10 21 .323
South Dakota State 3 15 .167 13 8 21 .276

x-Clinched regular season championship

NOTE: North Dakota State and South Dakota State are ineligible for the 2008 Tournament.

4th Place Tiebreaker

IPFW and Southern Utah split their two games and had identical records against each conference team. Southern Utah received the 4th seed, because their RPI of 231 was better than IPFW's RPI of 235.[2]

Bracket

Quarterfinals
March 8–9
Semifinals
March 10
Finals
March 11
         
1 Oral Roberts 84
8 Centenary 56
1 Oral Roberts 58
5 IPFW 42
4 Southern Utah 62
5 IPFW 66
1 Oral Roberts 71
2 IUPUI 64
2 IUPUI 69
7 UMKC 65
2 IUPUI 80
3 Oakland 65
3 Oakland 80
6 Western Illinois 66

See also

References

External links

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