2008 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Results
The University of Maryland-College Park went undefeated and knocked off the defending champions from the University of Chicago 350-240 in the final to claim its first NAQT ICT Division I overall title. This is the second championship in a row for Maryland's Chris Ray and Jeremy Eaton, as they helped Maryland win the Division II title last spring. The University of Illinois went 10-3 to claim third place while Brown, California-Irvine, and Vanderbilt finished tied for fourth place.
In the Undergraduate competition, Harvard University decisively defeated Dartmouth College in the final 330-115 to claim the championship. The victory ended a two-year string of frustration for Harvard, as its players had lost the Undergraduate final last year and the Division II final in 2006. This also marked the fourth consecutive NAQT national championship final for Kyle Haddad-Fonda who was not only on all three Harvard teams, but also led Lakeside School (Seattle, WA) to the finals of the high school championship in 2005. The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities finished third after losing a playoff to Dartmouth by the score of 235-130 for the right to challenge Harvard in the final.
In Division II, Carleton College defeated the University of Western Ontario 310-170 to claim the championship. This is the third ICT title of any kind for Carleton, who previously claimed the 1999 and 2007 Undergraduate championships while Western Ontario set a mark by becoming the first Canadian team to advance to any of the ICT finals. Dartmouth finished third and Cornell fourth, with MIT, Princeton, and Truman State sharing fifth-place honors.
In the Community College division, Valencia Community College successfully defended its title by defeating Chipola College in an all-Florida final, 145-80. This is the fifth title for Valencia, leaving them only one short of the University of Chicago's record for most total ICT championships. 2007's runner-up Gulf Coast (FL) CC finished third after losing its last two games of the tournament to Chipola, while South George College and Faulkner State (AL) CC rounded out the top five.
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The tournament All-Stars, based on performance in the seven initial round-robin games, were:
Division I
- Jerry Vinokurov, Brown
- Jason Keller, Rutgers
- Michael Angelo Sorice, Illinois A
- Garrett Ryan, Carleton College
- Brendan Byrne, Drake
- Paul Drube, Iowa
- Charlie Steinhice, UT-Chattanooga
- Seth Teitler, Chicago
Undergraduate
- Garrett Ryan, Carleton College
- Brendan Bryne, Drake
- Evan Adams, Virginia Commonwealth
- Jason Loy, Harding
Division II
- Greg Peterson, Lawrence
- Peter Burton, Western Ontario
- Matt Chadbourne, Missouri S&T
- Justin Byrd, Florida
- Hannah Kirsch, Brandeis
- Trevor Davis, Carnegie Mellon
- Kunle Demuren, Princeton
- Andrew Watkins, Harvard
Community College
- Nick Brown, Copiah-Lincoln CC
- Carl Tubridy, Gulf Coast CC
- Robert Slade, Georgia Perimeter
- Mark Hodge, Chipola
- Ian Mackenzie, Valencia CC
Complete team and individual statistics for both divisions are available.
The tournament, held on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis on April 11-12, featured 63 of the top teams from across North America.