2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament

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2008 Atlantic Coast Conference
Baseball Tournament
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2007-08 ACC baseball tournament logo
Teams8
Format2 division round robin and
championship game
Finals site
Champions Miami Hurricanes  (1st title)
Winning coach Jim Morris  (5th title)
MVPDave DiNatale (Miami Hurricanes)
2008 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Atlantic
No. 7 Florida State  xy246 .8005414 .794
No. 15 NC State  y1811 .6214222 .656
Wake Forest  1316 .4482531 .446
Clemson  1118 .3793127 .534
Maryland  921 .3003026 .536
Boston College  921 .3002627 .491
Coastal
No. 5 Miami (FL)  xy235 .8215311 .828
No. 3 North Carolina  y227 .7595414 .794
No. 24 Georgia Tech y 1614 .5334121 .661
Virginia  y1515 .5003923 .629
Duke  1018 .3573718 .673
Virginia Tech  624 .2002332 .418
x Division champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 27, 2008 [1] ; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament was held at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida from May 21 through May 25. The #1 seeded University of Miami won the tournament with a perfect 4-0 record, earning the Atlantic Coast Conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Miami's first conference championship in baseball after having played as an independent until joining the ACC during the 2004-05 academic year.

Contents

2008 was the second year in which the conference used a round robin tournament format, with the team with the best record in each group at the end of the three-game round robin advancing to a one-game championship.

Seeding Procedure

From TheACC.com:

The top two teams from both the Atlantic and Coastal divisions, as determined by conference winning percentage, in addition to the four teams with the next best conference winning percentage, regardless of division, will be selected to participate in the ACC Baseball Championship. The two division champions will automatically be seeded number one and two based on winning percentage in overall conference competition. The remaining teams will be seeded (three through eight) based on winning percentage in overall conference competition without regard to division. All ties will be broken using the tie-breaking provisions Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine .

Tournament

Division AUMNCSTGTCUOverall
1 Miami (FL) W 5–2W 15–12W 7–13–0
4 NC State L 2–5L 9–10W 10–01–2
5 Georgia Tech L 12–15W 10–9L 4–101–2
8 Clemson L 1–7L 0–10W 10–41–2
Division BFSUUNCUVAWFUOverall
2 Florida State W 9–6L 3–5W 8–32–1
3 North Carolina L 6–9L 7–811W 2–01–2
6 Virginia W 5–3W 8–711L 4–72–1
7 Wake Forest L 3–8L 0–2W 7–41–2
Finals
   
A Miami8
B Virginia 4

All-Tournament Team

PositionPlayerSchool
1B Yonder Alonso Miami
2B*Jemile Weeks Miami
3BDrew MartinNC State
SS Tommy Foschi NC State
C Buster Posey Florida State
OF*David ColemanVirginia
OF Dave DiNatale Miami
OF Blake Tekotte Miami
DH Allan Dykstra Wake Forest
P Matt Harvey North Carolina
PChris HernandezMiami
MVPDave DiNataleMiami

(*)Denotes Unanimous Selection

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References

  1. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 2008". Boyd's World. Retrieved October 22, 2017.