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Basketball Tournament |
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2008 Tournament Logo |
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| Classification | Division I | ||
| Season | 2007–08 | ||
| Teams | 8 | ||
| Site | Union Multipurpose Activity Center Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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| Champions | Oral Roberts (3rd title) | ||
| Winning coach | Scott Sutton (3rd title) | ||
| MVP | Moses Ehambe Oral Roberts | ||
| Top scorer | George Hill IUPUI (72 points) |
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| Post-The Summit League tournament(s) |
2008 NIT, 2008 NCAA, 2008 CBI |
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| The Summit League Men's Basketball Tournaments
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The 2008 The 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.
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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:
| Seed | Team | Conference | Overall | |||||
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| 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.
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]
| Quarterfinals March 8–9 |
Semifinals March 10 |
Finals March 11 |
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| 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 | |||||||||||
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