2008 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament

The 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament was held at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida, from May 21 through 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.

2008 Atlantic Coast Conference
baseball tournament

2007-08 ACC baseball tournament logo
Teams	8
Format	2 division round robin and championship game
Finals site	Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville Jacksonville, Florida
Champions	Miami Hurricanes (1st title)
Winning coach	Jim Morris (5th title)
MVP	Dave DiNatale (Miami Hurricanes)

2008 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Atlantic
No. 7 Florida State x‍‍‍y	24	–	6		.800			54	–	14		.794
No. 15 NC State ‍‍‍y	18	–	11		.621			42	–	22		.656
Wake Forest ‍‍‍	13	–	16		.448			25	–	31		.446
Clemson ‍‍‍	11	–	18		.379			31	–	27		.534
Maryland  ‍‍‍	9	–	21		.300			30	–	26		.536
Boston College  ‍‍‍	9	–	21		.300			26	–	27		.491
Coastal
No. 5 Miami (FL) x‍‍‡‍y	23	–	5		.821			53	–	11		.828
No. 3 North Carolina ‍‍‍y	22	–	7		.759			54	–	14		.794
No. 24 Georgia Techy ‍‍‍	16	–	14		.533			41	–	21		.661
Virginia ‍‍‍y	15	–	15		.500			39	–	23		.629
Duke  ‍‍‍	10	–	18		.357			37	–	18		.673
Virginia Tech  ‍‍‍	6	–	24		.200			23	–	32		.418
x – Division champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 27, 2008 Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

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.

• Boston College, Duke, Maryland and Virginia Tech did not make the tournament.

Tournament

	Division A	UM	NCST	GT	CU	Overall
1	Miami (FL)		W 5–2	W 15–12	W 7–1	3–0
4	NC State	L 2–5		L 9–10	W 10–0	1–2
5	Georgia Tech	L 12–15	W 10–9		L 4–10	1–2
8	Clemson	L 1–7	L 0–10	W 10–4		1–2

	Division B	FSU	UNC	UVA	WFU	Overall
2	Florida State		W 9–6	L 3–5	W 8–3	2–1
3	North Carolina	L 6–9		L 7–811	W 2–0	1–2
6	Virginia	W 5–3	W 8–711		L 4–7	2–1
7	Wake Forest	L 3–8	L 0–2	W 7–4		1–2

	Finals
	A	Miami	8
	B	Virginia	4

• Florida State and Miami were Regular Season Division Champs.

All-Tournament Team

Position	Player	School
1B	Yonder Alonso	Miami
2B	*Jemile Weeks	Miami
3B	Drew Martin	NC State
SS	Tommy Foschi	NC State
C	Buster Posey	Florida State
OF	*David Coleman	Virginia
OF	Dave DiNatale	Miami
OF	Blake Tekotte	Miami
DH	Allan Dykstra	Wake Forest
P	Matt Harvey	North Carolina
P	Chris Hernandez	Miami
MVP	Dave DiNatale	Miami

(*)Denotes Unanimous Selection

See also

• College World Series
• NCAA Division I Baseball Championship

References

• TheACC.com 2008 Baseball Championship Info