2008 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team information
American college baseball season
2008Vanderbilt Commodores baseball
Conference
Southeastern Conference
Division
East
Record
41-22 (15-14 SEC)
Head coach
Tim Corbin
Home stadium
Hawkins Field
Seasons
← 2007
2009 →
2008 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
v
t
e
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
PCT
W
L
PCT
Eastern
No. 2 Georgia x†y
20
–
9
.690
45
–
25
.643
Florida y
17
–
13
.567
34
–
24
.586
No. 25 Kentucky y
16
–
14
.533
44
–
19
.698
Vanderbilt y
15
–
14
.517
41
–
22
.651
South Carolina y
15
–
15
.500
40
–
23
.635
Tennessee
12
–
18
.400
27
–
29
.482
Western
No. 6 LSU x‡y
18
–
11
.621
49
–
19
.721
Alabama y
16
–
14
.533
35
–
28
.556
Ole Miss y
15
–
15
.500
39
–
26
.600
Arkansas y
14
–
15
.483
34
–
24
.586
Auburn
11
–
19
.367
28
–
28
.500
Mississippi State
9
–
21
.300
23
–
33
.411
x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 2008[1] Rankings from Coaches' Poll
The 2008 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team represented Vanderbilt University in the 2008 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team played at Hawkins Field in Nashville, Tennessee.
The team was coached by Tim Corbin in his sixth season at Vanderbilt. The previous season, Corbin's team posted a 54-13 record and won the SEC regular season crown and the SEC tournament. They also hosted a regional for the first time in school history, eventually falling to Michigan in an extra-innings heartbreaker.
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the Commodores lost 56–6 to one of Auburn's greatest teams, Vanderbilt's worst defeat since its 83–0 loss to Georgia Tech in 1917. The Commodores had...
of baseball (5G, 2-for-5, K). Lea remained in Nashville and finished his college career at Vanderbilt, where he played fullback for the Commodores his...
coach at Vanderbilt University, a position he held from the 2002 season until his retirement in 2010. In December 2001, Johnson became the Commodores' head...
nicknamed the Commodores, in honor of the nickname given to Cornelius Vanderbilt, who made his fortune in shipping. The term commodore was used by the...
"Doc Kuhn", was an American football, baseball and basketball player for the Vanderbilt University Commodores and later a prominent businessman of Tampa...
Clemson University in 2001 and at Vanderbilt University from 2002 to 2004 for coach Tim Corbin and in Minor League Baseball (MiLB) for eight seasons from...
Vanderbilt University, where he played college baseball for the VanderbiltCommodores. After leading the team in batting average in his senior year, the Chicago...
million signing bonus to instead attend Vanderbilt University. He played college baseball for the VanderbiltCommodores, and was drafted by the Giants as the...
the defending champion VanderbiltCommodores 4–2 in the decisive Game 3 and thereby avenging their CWS Finals loss to Vanderbilt the previous year. The...
teams at Vanderbilt are known as the "Commodores", due to founder Cornelius Vanderbilt's sobriquet. Vanderbilt University currently sponsors teams in six...
recruiting class in 2005. Baseball America ranked the 2006 recruiting class 25th, and the 2007 class 12th. In 2008, the Commodores secured the No. 2 class...
with Vanderbilt, but the team was eliminated by Florida. In 2008, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League...
championship series when on June 30, 2021, the club defeated the VanderbiltCommodores with a score of 9–0 to finally secure its first National Championship...
football team was future college teammate and All-American Hek Wakefield. Bomar played for head coach Dan McGugin's VanderbiltCommodores football team at Vanderbilt...
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