1999 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1999 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 1998–99
Teams 8
Site Spiro Sports Center
Staten Island, NY
Champions Mount St. Mary's (2nd title)
Winning coach Jim Phelan (2nd title)
MVP Gregory Harris (MSM)
1998–99 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
UMBC17–3 .850  19–9  .679
St. Francis (NY)16–4 .800  20–8  .714
Robert Morris12–8 .600  15–12  .556
Central Connecticut11–9 .550  19–13  .594
Long Island10–10 .500  10–17  .370
Mount St. Mary's†10–10 .500  15–15  .500
Fairleigh Dickinson9–11 .450  12–16  .429
Wagner7–13 .350  9–18  .333
Saint Francis (PA)7–13 .350  9–17  .346
Quinnipiac6–14 .300  9–18  .333
Monmouth5–15 .250  5–21  .192
† 1999 NEC Tournament winner


The 1999 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March. The tournament featured the league's top eight seeds. Mount St. Mary's won the championship, their second, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 1999 NCAA Tournament.

Format

The NEC Men’s Basketball Tournament consisted of an eight-team playoff format with all games played at the Spiro Sports Center in Staten Island, NY.

Bracket

Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship Game
         
1 UMBC 63
8 Wagner 56
1 UMBC 72
4 Central Connecticut 82
4 Central Connecticut 67
5 Long Island 58
4 Central Connecticut 56
6 Mount St. Mary's 72
2 St. Francis (NY) 65
7 Fairleigh Dickinson 58
2 St. Francis (NY) 66
6 Mount St. Mary's 68
3 Robert Morris 63
6 Mount St. Mary's 80

All-tournament team

Tournament MVP in bold.[1]

1999 NEC All-Tournament Team

Gregory Harris, MSM
Corsley Edwards, CCSU
Ray Minlend, SFNY
Terence Ward, UMBC
Charron Watson, CCSU
Melvin Whitaker, MSM

References

  1. ↑ "NEC men's basketball record book" (PDF). NortheastConference.org. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
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