The 2007–08 Mid-American Conference season was its 62nd season in existence. The
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region (North America), Great L ...
(MAC) competed at
Division I in the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges ...
. It sponsored 23 sports (11 men's and 12 women's).
Teams
Four schools have affiliate membership status:
Reese and Jacoby trophies
The Reese and Jacoby trophies are awarded to the top men's and women's athletic departments in the Mid-American Conference.
Points are awarded based on each school's finish, with the overall total divided by the number of sports sponsored by each school. An institution may count either indoor track and field or outdoor track and field but not both.
Reese standings
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* Affiliate status only. Does not qualify for trophy.''
Jacoby standings
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* Affiliate status only. Does not qualify for trophy.''
Sports
Baseball
The 2008 baseball season begins in February 2008 and concludes with the NCAA tournament in June 2008.
Kent State is the defending East division and conference tournament champion and finished 0-2 in the
2007 NCAA baseball tournament.
Eastern Michigan
Eastern Michigan University (EMU, Eastern Michigan or simply Eastern), is a public research university in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School, the school was the fourth normal school established in the United Sta ...
won the MAC West division.
Standings
=East
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=West
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Basketball (men's)
The 2007-08 men's basketball season begins in November 2007 and concludes with the NCAA tournament in March 2008.
Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at ...
won the 2007 conference tournament, defeating East division champion
Akron
Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 Census, the city ...
in the finals. Miami was seeded 14th in the
2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2006–07 basketball sea ...
and lost to 3rd seed
Oregon
Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...
in the first round.
Toledo is the defending West division champion.
Kent State was picked by the MAC News Media Association to win the East Division and
Western Michigan
West Michigan and Western Michigan are terms for an arbitrary region in the U.S. state of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Most narrowly it refers to the Grand Rapids- Muskegon-Holland area, and more broadly to most of the region along the Lower Pen ...
was picked to win the West Division. Kent State was picked to win the MAC Tournament.
Standings
Tournament
Players of the week
The following are the MAC men's basketball players of the week. Number of awards won this season are in parentheses.
Basketball (women's)
The 2007-08 women's basketball season begins in November 2007 and concludes with the NCAA tournament in March 2008. East division champion
Bowling Green
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.
Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep ...
defeated West champion
Ball State in the finals of the conference tournament. Bowling Green, which entered the
2007 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament began on March 17, 2007 and concluded on April 3 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The Final Four consisted of Tennessee, LSU, Rutgers, and North Carolina, with Tennessee defeatin ...
ranked 18th and 20th in the
USA Today Coaches Poll
The Coaches Poll is a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football, Division I college basketball, and Division I college baseball teams. The football version of the poll has been known officiall ...
and
Associated Press Poll
The Associated Press poll (AP poll) provides weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling 62 sportswriters and broadca ...
, respectively, was seeded 7th and advanced to the
Sweet Sixteen, defeating 10th seeded
Oklahoma State
Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...
and 2nd seeded
Vanderbilt along the way.
Standings
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* Received W1 seed based on 2-0 head-to-head record vs. Eastern Michigan.''
Tournament
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* double overtime''
Players of the week
The following are the MAC women's basketball players of the week. Number of awards won this season are in parentheses.
Cross country (men's)
The 2007 men's cross country season began in August 2007 and concluded with the
NCAA Men's Cross Country Championship
The NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Championship is the cross country championship held by the National Collegiate Athletic Association each autumn for individual men's runners and cross country teams from universities in Division I. Teams a ...
in November 2007.
Eastern Michigan
Eastern Michigan University (EMU, Eastern Michigan or simply Eastern), is a public research university in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School, the school was the fourth normal school established in the United Sta ...
won the team championship, placing three runners in the top 5.
Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at ...
was the runner up. Josh Perrin of EMU won the individual championship. The win was EMU's third consecutive team championship.
Nine of the ten MAC teams competed in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. Eastern Michigan finished 7th, followed by Miami (9th),
Kent State (10th),
Central Michigan
Central Michigan, also called Mid Michigan, is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As its name implies, it is the middle area of the Lower Peninsula. Lower Michigan is said to resemble a mitten, and Mid Michigan cor ...
(12th),
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
(14th),
Akron
Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 Census, the city ...
(18th),
Toledo (29th).
Bowling Green
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.
Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep ...
did not place.
Buffalo competed in the Northeast Regional and finished 18th. No teams qualified to compete in the NCAA Cross Country Championships.
Josh Karanja (Eastern Michigan), Craig Leon (Ohio) and Pat Sovacool (Miami) qualified for the individual championship. Leon finished 106th, Sovacool 135th and Karanja 150th.
Champions
* Team: Eastern Michigan
* Individual: Josh Perrin, Eastern Michigan (24:33)
MAC Championship results
# Eastern Michigan, 31 points
# Miami, 50
# Central Michigan, 98
# Ohio, 116
# Akron, 120
# Kent State, 130
# Buffalo, 180
# Bowling Green, 241
# Toledo, 258
Players of the week
Cross country (women's)
The 2007 women's cross country season began in August 2007 and concludes with the
NCAA Women's Cross Country Championship
The NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship is the cross country championship held by the National Collegiate Athletic Association each autumn for individual runners and cross country teams from universities in Division I. Teams and ...
in November 2007.
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
won its second team championship in as many years. Laura Neufarth of Miami won the individual championship.
Champions
* Team: Ohio
* Individual: Laura Neufarth, Miami (17:35)
MAC Championship results
# Ohio, 56 points
# Akron, 58
# Miami, 77
# Toledo, 89
# Ball State, 135
# Central Michigan, 174
# Bowling Green, 218
# Western Michigan, 224
# Kent State, 230
# Buffalo, 232
# Eastern Michigan, 286
# NIU, 289
Players of the week
Field hockey
Ohio captured the Mid-American Conference regular season championship, finishing 2 games better than second place Kent State. Ohio also won the MAC tournament championship, defeating Miami 3-2 in overtime. The victory marked the first time an Ohio field hockey team has won the regular season and tournament championships two years in a row. Ohio was ranked 15 in the final
STX/NFHCA Division I National Coaches Poll.
Ohio defeated
American University 3-2 in the
NCAA Women's Field Hockey Championship
The NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship is an American intercollegiate field hockey tournament conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and determines the Division I national champion. The championship is contested ...
Opening Round game. Ohio lost to #6 ranked
Michigan Wolverines 1-0 in overtime in the First Round of the tournament.
Tournament
The conference tournament took place November 1 through November 3 in
Oxford, OH
Oxford is a city in Butler County, Ohio, United States. The population was 23,035 at the 2020 census. A college town, Oxford was founded as a home for Miami University and lies in the southwestern portion of the state approximately northwest ...
.
=All-tournament team
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* Torrie Albini, F, Ohio
* Taylor Florence, F, Miami
* Danielle Gaynor, MF, Miami
* Louise Gerike, GK, Central Michigan
* Nikki Gnozzio, D, Ohio
* Jessie Martin, GK, Ohio
* Anna McComb, MF, Kent State
* Rachel Miller, F, Kent State
* Alyssa Nye, F, Miami
* Kim Sihota, MF, Central Michigan
Standings
Players of the week
Awards
* Player of the Year: Jessie Martin, Ohio
* Coach of the Year: Kathleen Schanne, Kent State
* Freshman of the Year: Rachel Miller, Kent State
* All MAC, First Team
** Rachelle Coetzee, Ohio, Midfielder, Senior
** Lauren Cruz, Ball State, Midfielder, Senior
** Kim Erasmus, Central Michigan, Midfielder, Sophomore
** Taylor Florence, Miami, Forward, Senior
** Nikki Gnozzio, Ohio, Forward, Sophomore
** Sarah Johnson, Missouri State, Defense, Junior
** Brooke MacGillivary, Ball State, Forward, Sophomore
** Jessie Martin, Ohio, Goalkeeper, Junior
** Rachel Miller, Kent State, Forward, Freshman
** Charlotte Muller, Kent State, Midfielder, Senior
** Alyssa Nye, Miami, Forward, Senior
Football
The 2007 MAC football season began in August 2007 and concludes with the
2008 GMAC Bowl
The 2008 GMAC Bowl was an American college football bowl game. It was part of the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the ninth annual playing of the game. It was played on January 6, 2008, at Ladd–Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabam ...
on January 6, 2008.
Players of the week
Golf (men's)
MAC Championship
# Eastern Michigan
# Kent State
# Ball State
# Toledo
# Akron
# Miami
# Ohio
# Bowling Green
# NIU
Players of the week
Golf (women's)
MAC Championship
# Kent State (1177)
# Eastern Michigan (1228)
# Toledo (1232)
# Western Michigan (1272)
# Ball State (1277)
# Ohio (1297)
# NIU (1308)
# Bowling Green (1310)
Gymnastics
MAC Championship
# Kent State, 195.675 points
# Eastern Michigan, 193.800
# Central Michigan, 193.675
# NIU, 193.375
# Western Michigan, 192.500
# Ball State, 192.100
# Bowling Green, 192.025
Players of the week
The following are the gymnastics players of the week. Number of awards won this season are in parentheses.
Soccer (men's)
Tournament
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* Hartwick advances 4-2 on penalty kicks''
''† Double overtime''
Standings
Players of the week
Soccer (women's)
Tournament
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* Overtime''
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** Bowling Green advances 3-0 on penalty kicks''
''† Toledo advances 4-3 on penalty kicks''
''‡ Toledo wins championship 3-2 on penalty kicks''
Standings
Players of the week
Softball
Standings
=East
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=West
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Players of the week
Swimming (men's)
Standings
MAC Championship results
# Eastern Michigan, 589 points
# Miami, 315.5
# Buffalo, 200
# Ball State, 111
Players of the week
Swimming (women's)
Standings
MAC Championship results
# Ohio, 679.5 points
# Toledo, 605.5
# Eastern Michigan, 575
# Miami, 538
# Buffalo, 341
# Bowling Green, 333.5
# Akron, 246
# Ball State, 175.5
Players of the week
Tennis (men's)
Players of the week
Tennis (women's)
Players of the week
Track and field (men's)
Indoor MAC Championships
: 1. Eastern Michigan, 207 points
: 2. Akron, 124
: 3. Kent State, 98
: 4. Central Michigan, 47
: 4. Buffalo, 47
Outdoor MAC Championships
# Akron, 182 points
# Eastern Michigan, 182
# Kent State, 153
# Miami, 192.5
# Central Michigan, 85.5
# Buffalo, 79
Players of the week
Track and field (women's)
Indoor MAC Championships
# Akron, 106 points
# Western Michigan, 96
# Miami, 88
# Ball State, 86
# Central Michigan, 55.50
# Buffalo, 50.50
# Eastern Michigan, 40.50
# Kent State, 34
# Toledo, 32.50
# Ohio, 32
# Bowling Green, 26.50
# NIU, 12.50
Outdoor MAC Championships
:1 Akron, 208.5 points
:2 Western Michigan, 153
:3 Miami, 73.5
:4 Kent State, 73
:5 Central Michigan, 64
:6 Buffalo, 50.5
:7 Ohio, 43
:8 Toledo, 35.5
:9 Eastern Michigan, 35
:9 Ball State, 35
:11 Bowling Green, 29
:12 NIU, 18
Players of the week
Volleyball
The 2007 Mid-American Conference volleyball season begins in August and ends with the NCAA tournament in November. The MAC Tournament begins November 13 on campus sites and concludes with the finals November 18 at the
SeaGate Convention Centre
The Glass City Center is a performing arts and convention center located in downtown Toledo, Ohio. Opened on March 27, 1987, as the SeaGate Convention Centre, the center's exhibit hall measures 74,520 square feet (207 feet by 360 feet) of space ...
in
Toledo, OH
Toledo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. A major Midwestern United States port city, Toledo is the fourth-most populous city in the state of Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and according ...
.
Tournament
Standings
Players of the week
Wrestling
Central Michigan was picked to win the MAC Championship by the league coaches. Kent State was picked to finish second. The 2008 MAC Championships will be held March 8 through 9, 2008 at Kent State.
Standings
Players of the week
See also
*
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region (North America), Great L ...
*
List of Mid-American Conference champions
References
External links
Official website
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