Английская Википедия:2008 MAAC men's basketball tournament

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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.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker	Tiebreaker 2	Tiebreaker 3
1	Siena	13–5	1–1 vs Rider	2–2 vs Niag/Loy	3–1 vs FF/Mar
2	Rider	13–5	1–1 vs Siena	2–2 vs Niag/Loy	2–2 vs FF/Mar
3	Niagara	12–6	2–0 vs Loyola
4	Loyola (MD)	12–6	0–2 vs Niagara
5	Fairfield	11–7	1–1 vs Mar	1–1 vs Siena
6	Marist	11–7	1–1 vs FF	0–2 vs Siena
7	Iona	8–10
8	Manhattan	5–13
9	Saint Peter's	3–15
10	Canisius	2–16

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Score	Television
First round – Friday, March 7
1	1	7:30 pm	No. 8 Manhattan vs No. 9 Saint Peter's	73–59	MSG
	2	10:00 pm	No. 7 Iona vs No. 10 Canisius	59–64
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 8
2	3	2:15 pm	No. 4 Loyola vs No. 5 Fairfield	64–59	MSG
	4	4:30 pm	No. 1 Siena vs No. 8 Manhattan	66–58
Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 8
3	5	7:30 pm	No. 2 Rider vs No. 10 Canisius	75–71	MSG
	6	10:00 pm	No. 3 Niagara vs No. 6 Marist	62–66
Semifinals – Sunday, March 9
4	7	6:00 pm	No. 1 Siena vs No. 4 Loyola	65–63	MSG
	8	8:00 pm	No. 2 Rider vs No. 6 Marist	76–71
Championship – Monday, March 10
5	9	7:00 pm	No. 1 Siena vs No. 2 Rider	74–53	ESPN2
*Game times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Honors

MAAC All-Championship Team	Player	School	Position	Year
	Harris Mansell	Rider	G	Junior
	Jason Thompson	Rider	C	Senior
	Tay Fisher	Siena	G	Senior
	Edwin Ubiles	Siena	F	Sophomore
	Alex Franklin	Siena	F	Sophomore
	Kenny Hasbrouck †	Siena	G	Junior

† Most Valuable Player