2008 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2008 MAAC Men's Basketball Tournament was an NCAA college basketball tournament held at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York on March 7-10, 2007, to decide the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion. On Monday, March 10 2008, top-seeded Siena defeated #2 seed Rider 74–53 in the championship game, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. 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.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreakerTiebreaker 2Tiebreaker 3
1Siena13–51–1 vs Rider2–2 vs Niag/Loy3–1 vs FF/Mar
2Rider13–51–1 vs Siena2–2 vs Niag/Loy2–2 vs FF/Mar
3Niagara12–62–0 vs Loyola
4Loyola 12–60–2 vs Niagara
5Fairfield11–71–1 vs Mar1–1 vs Siena
6Marist11–71–1 vs FF0–2 vs Siena
7Iona8–10
8Manhattan5–13
9Saint Peter's3–15
10Canisius2–16

Schedule

Bracket

Game summaries

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Championship

Honors

† Most Valuable Player