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2008 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament

2008 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 8
Format Double-elimination tournament
Site
Champions Louisville (1st title)
Winning coach Dan McDonnell (1st title)
MVP Chris Dominguez (Louisville)
2008 Big East Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
#29 St. John's y 20 7 0   .741     41 19 0   .683
Cincinnati 19 8 0   .704     39 20 0   .661
Notre Dame 16 10 0   .615     33 21 1   .609
Louisville y 16 11 0   .593     41 21 0   .661
Seton Hall 15 12 0   .556     31 25 0   .554
South Florida 14 13 0   .519     31 27 0   .534
West Virginia 13 14 0   .481     31 27 0   .534
Villanova 12 15 0   .444     30 28 0   .517
Connecticut 11 16 0   .407     27 28 0   .491
Rutgers 11 16 0   .407     23 29 1   .443
Pittsburgh 7 19 0   .269     19 34 0   .358
Georgetown 7 20 0   .259     18 32 0   .360
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2008; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2008 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Bright House Field in Clearwater, FL. This was the twenty fourth annual Big East Conference Baseball Tournament, and second to be held at Bright House Field. The Louisville Cardinals won their first tournament championship and claimed the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Louisville joined the league prior to the 2006 season.

The Big East baseball tournament was an 8 team double elimination tournament in 2008. The top eight regular season finishers were seeded one through eight based on conference winning percentage only. The field was divided into two brackets, with the winners of each bracket meeting in a single championship game.

† - Indicates game was suspended after seven innings due to 10 run mercy rule. ‡ - Indicates game was suspended after 8 innings due to 10 run mercy rule.

The following players were named to the All-Tournament team.

Chris Dominguez was the winner of the 2008 Jack Kaiser Award. Dominguez was a sophomore third baseman for Louisville.


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