2001 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

The 2001 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March. The tournament featured the league's top eight seeds. Monmouth won the championship, its second, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Tournament.

2001 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season200001
Teams8
SiteSovereign Bank Arena
Trenton, NJ
ChampionsMonmouth (2nd title)
Winning coachDave Calloway (1st title)
MVPRahsaan Johnson (MU)
2000–01 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
St. Francis (NY)164 .800  1811  .621
Monmouth155 .750  2110  .677
UMBC137 .650  1811  .621
Long Island128 .600  1216  .429
Wagner119 .550  1613  .552
Central Connecticut119 .550  1414  .500
Fairleigh Dickinson1010 .500  1315  .464
Saint Francis (PA)911 .450  918  .333
Mount St. Mary's713 .350  721  .250
Robert Morris713 .350  722  .241
Sacred Heart614 .300  721  .250
Quinnipiac317 .150  621  .222
2001 NEC Tournament winner

Format

The NEC Men’s Basketball Tournament consisted of the conferences top seven teams. All games were played at Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, NJ. The #1 seed received a bye for the first round.

Bracket

  Quarterfinals     Semifinals     Finals
                           
  4 Long Island 83    
  5 Wagner 88    
        1 St. Francis (NY) 72  
            5 Wagner 65    
               
      1 St. Francis (NY) 64
  2 Monmouth 71               2 Monmouth 67
  7 Fairleigh Dickinson 59              
        2 Monmouth 67    
        3 UMBC 54  
  3 UMBC 59    
  6 Central Connecticut 44  

All-tournament team

Tournament MVP in bold.[1]

2001 NEC All-Tournament Team

Rahsaan Johnson, MU
Gerry Crosby, MU
Richy Dominguez, SFNY
Steven Howard, SFNY
Jermaine Hall, WAGNER

References

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