The 2008 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament took place from May 20–24. 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 consecutive 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 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Seeding The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded based on conference winning percentage. 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. Team W L Pct. GB Seed 19 5 .792 16 8 .667 16 8 .667 10 14 .417 10 14 .417 9 15 .375 4 20 .167
Results
All-Tournament Team Name POS Team Mike Brownstein 2B New Mexico Stephen Smith P New Mexico Clint Arnold OF TCU Matt Carpenter 3B TCU Bryan Kervin SS TCU Matt Vern 1B TCU J. J. Sferra OF UNLV Dustin Hennis OF Utah John James P Utah Cody Guymon DH Utah Andrew Cashner RP TCU
Most Valuable Player Clint Arnold, an outfielder for the champion TCU Horned Frogs, was named the tournament most valuable player.
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