2003 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament

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2003 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200203
Teams8
Site Spiro Sports Center
Staten Island, NY
Finals site Spiro Sports Center
Staten Island, NY
Champions Wagner (1st title)
Winning coach Dereck Whittenburg (1st title)
MVP Jermaine Hal (Wagner)
  2002
2004  
2002–03 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Wagner144 .7782111  .656
Monmouth 135 .7221513  .536
Central Connecticut 126 .6671513  .536
Quinnipiac 108 .5561712  .586
Saint Francis (PA) 108 .5561414  .500
St. Francis (NY) 99 .5001416  .467
Fairleigh Dickinson 99 .5001514  .517
Long Island 711 .389919  .321
Robert Morris 711 .3891017  .370
Mount St. Mary's 612 .3331116  .407
Sacred Heart 612 .333821  .276
UMBC 513 .278720  .259
2003 NEC tournament winner

The 2003 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament was held in March. The tournament featured the league's top eight seeds. Wagner won the championship, its first, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Tournament.

Contents

Format

The NEC Men’s Basketball Tournament consisted of an eight-team playoff format with the quarterfinal and semifinal games played at the Spiro Sports Center in Staten Island, NY. The Championship game was played at the court of the highest remaining seed, Wagner.

Bracket

Quarterfinals
Spiro Sports Center
Semifinals
Spiro Sports Center
Championship Game
Spiro Sports Center
         
1 Wagner 88
8 Long Island 66
1Wagner61
4 Quinnipiac 54
4 Quinnipiac 75
5 Saint Francis (PA) 57
1Wagner78
6 St. Francis (NY) 61
2 Monmouth 61
7 Fairleigh Dickinson 63
7 Fairleigh Dickinson 66
6St. Francis (NY)88
3 Central Connecticut 62
6 St. Francis (NY) 67

All-tournament team

Tournament MVP in bold. [1]

2003 NEC All-Tournament Team

Jermaine Hall, WAGNER
Rashaun Banjo, QU
John Quintana, SFNY
Dedrick Dye, WAGNER
Courtney Pritchard, WAGNER

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References

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