2008 SEC Basketball Tournament
Printable & Viewable Bracket Link: 2008 SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Bracket
Participants/Overview: Once again the 08 SEC hoops tournament will be held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. This is the eight time in the last 11 years that the Georgia Dome will be the hosting venue.
We waited a little longer to provide this years writeup because of the bubble situation. This is one of the weakest bubbles in recent memory just as this is one of the weakest bunch of SEC conference teams in recent memory. You have one dominant team and one final four contender in the form of Tennessee.
Bruce Pearl's Volunteers are looking to secure a number 1 seed by plowing through the southeastern conference tournament field. The Vols enter the tournament as the number 4 ranked team in the country with a 28-3 overall record (14-2 in conference play). The other teams that likely will be dancing are the Vanderbilt Commodores, Arkansas Razorbacks, Kentucky Wildcats, and Mississippi State Bulldogs.
As weak as the conference is, the young Florida Gators are on the bubble, but can still get hot and win themselves a bid. It will likely take a first round win over Alabama, a quarterfinal win over the west seed's #1 Mississippi State, and a semifinal win over Kentucky/Mississippi/Georgia, which ever team makes it that far. Depending on how the rest of the NCAA's conference tournament games go, they may need to pull the impressive 4 wins in 4 days feat, if teams that were not getting at large bids steal conference championships away in multiple bid leagues. Although the SEC is down, this still should be one of the enjoyable conference tournaments to watch and wager on.
Venue: Georgia Dome
Sponsor: Dr. Pepper
Dates: March 13th-March 16th
TV: The early rounds of the tournament will be broadcast on local affiliates. With the tournament championship game being nationally televised on CBS at 1:00 eastern time Sunday March 16th.
SEC Tournament Schedule
March 13th - Opening Round
March 14th - Quarterfinals
March 15th - Semifinals
March 16th - Championship
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Last Years Winner
Florida Gators. For the third straight year Billy Donovan's team
stood at the top of the SEC heap. This tournament really was no
sweat for the defending national champions as they beat their opponents
on average of 19 points per victory. In the quarterfinals they beat
Georgia 74-57, in the Semifinals they demolished the 2 seeded Mississippi
Rebels 80-59. In the championship final the Gators ended the Cinderella
run of the Arkansas Razorbacks knocking off the Hogs 77-56.
Arkansas was forced to playing 4 games in 4 days since they didn't qualify for a first round bye due to their conference record. The selection tournament committee rewarded Arkansas' good run in the SEC tournament with a controversial at-large bid. In the first round of the tournament the Hogs might have made the committee second guess their decision as the USC Trojans smoked Arkansas 77-60.
As for Florida they were rewarded with a 1 seed after winning the Southeastern conference tournament. An interesting note about previous SEC tournament winners. Five of the last twelve winners of this tournament have gone onto to win the national championship. The 2007 tournament fit into that same subset as the Florida Gators ran through the field and won the national title for the 2 year in a row. Florida didn't win a game by less than 7 points while beating Jackson State in the first round, Purdue in the second round, Butler in the sweet sixteen, Oregon in the elite 8, UCLA in the final four round, and Ohio State in the championship game.
Previous Years SEC Tournament Bracket
2007 Champion: Florida
2006
Champion: Florida
2005
Champion: Florida
2004
Champion: Kentucky
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