2008 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament

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2008 Mountain West Conference
baseball tournament
Teams6
Format Double-elimination
Finals site
Champions TCU  (3rd title)
MVP Clint Arnold (TCU)
Television Mountiain/CBS Sports Network
2008 Mountain West Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 26 TCU  y195 .7924419 .698
New Mexico  168 .6673425 .576
San Diego State  168 .6673128 .525
Utah  1014 .4172628 .481
BYU  1014 .4172236 .379
UNLV  915 .3752237 .373
Air Force  420 .1671833 .353
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the 2008 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
As of June 8, 2008 [1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2008 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament took place from May 20 through 24. The top six regular season finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Texas Christian University's Lupton Stadium. Top seeded TCU won their third straight and third overall Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 15–2 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. [2] [3]

Contents

Seeding

The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only. Only six teams participate, so Air Force was not in the field. New Mexico claimed the second seed over San Diego State by winning the season series. BYU claimed the fourth seed by winning the season series over Utah.

TeamWLPct.GBSeed
TCU 195.792
1
New Mexico 168.667
3
2
San Diego State 168.667
3
3
BYU 1014.417
9
4
Utah 1014.417
9
5
UNLV 915.375
10
6
Air Force 420.167
15

Results

Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
1 TCU 9
3 San Diego State 26UNLV3
6 UNLV 61TCU2
2New Mexico3
2 New Mexico 8
4 BYU 35Utah2
5 Utah 9
2New Mexico22
1TCU915
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
1TCU6
6UNLV45Utah3
5Utah15Utah7
3San Diego State13San Diego State0
4BYU0

[4]

All-Tournament Team

NamePOSTeam
Mike Brownstein2BNew Mexico
Stephen SmithPNew Mexico
Clint ArnoldOFTCU
Matt Carpenter 3BTCU
Bryan KervinSSTCU
Matt Vern1BTCU
J. J. SferraOFUNLV
Dustin HennisOFUtah
John JamesPUtah
Cody GuymonDHUtah
Andrew Cashner RPTCU

Most Valuable Player

Clint Arnold, an outfielder for the champion TCU Horned Frogs, was named the tournament Most Valuable Player. [3]

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