2001 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament

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2001 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200001
Teams8
Site Sovereign Bank Arena
Trenton, NJ
ChampionsMonmouth (2nd title)
Winning coach Dave Calloway (1st title)
MVP Rahsaan Johnson (MU)
  2000
2002  
2000–01 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
St. Francis (NY) 164 .8001811  .621
Monmouth155 .7502110  .677
UMBC 137 .6501811  .621
Long Island 128 .6001216  .429
Wagner 119 .5501613  .552
Central Connecticut 119 .5501414  .500
Fairleigh Dickinson 1010 .5001315  .464
Saint Francis (PA) 911 .450918  .333
Mount St. Mary's 713 .350721  .250
Robert Morris 713 .350722  .241
Sacred Heart 614 .300721  .250
Quinnipiac 317 .150621  .222
2001 NEC tournament winner

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.

Contents

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
         
1 St. Francis (NY) 72
5 Wagner 65
4 Long Island 83
5 Wagner 88
1 St. Francis (NY) 64
2Monmouth67
2 Monmouth 71
7 Fairleigh Dickinson 59
2Monmouth67
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

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References

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