The 2008 MAAC men's basketball tournament was an NCAA college basketball tournament held at the

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on March 7–10, 2007,ESPN - Conference tournament schedule, results
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champion. On Monday, March 10 2008, top-seeded

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defeated #2 seed Rider 74–53 in the championship game, and received the conference's automatic bid to the

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. Siena received a #13 seed and upset #4 seed Vanderbilt 83–62, then were defeated in the second round by #12 seed Villanova 84–72.

Seeds

All 10 teams in the conference participated in the Tournament. The top six teams received byes to the quarterfinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Schedule

Bracket

Game summaries

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Championship

Honors

† Most Valuable Player

References

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