Northeast Conference women's basketball tournament

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Northeast Conference women's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
Sport Basketball
Conference Northeast Conference
Number of teams8
Format Single-elimination tournament
Played1986–present
Last contest 2024
Current champion Sacred Heart
Most championships Saint Francis (PA) (12)
Official website Northeast Conference Basketball
Host locations
Campus sites (1987–present)

The Northeast Conference women's basketball tournament is the conference championship tournament in women's basketball for the Northeast Conference. It is a single-elimination tournament that in its most recent 2024 edition involved 8 of the 9 then-current league schools, and seeding is based on regular-season records with head-to-head match-up as a tie-breaker. [1] While the NEC lost two members after the 2023–24 season, with Merrimack and Sacred Heart leaving for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, it gained two members at the same time with the impending addition of Chicago State and Mercyhurst.

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The tournament has been held since 1986, although the winner has only received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA women's basketball tournament since 1994. [2] Between the 1987 and 1988, when the NEC was still called the ECAC Metro Conference, the tournament was known as the ECAC Metro Conference women's basketball tournament.

The highest seeds face off against the corresponding lowest seeds, with the two remaining teams facing off in the Finals to determine the champion.

Saint Francis has the most championships with 12. The next three schools in this category—Robert Morris (8), Mount St. Mary's, and Sacred Heart (5 each)—left the NEC between 2020 and 2024. No other program that will be an NEC member in the 2024–25 season has more than two.

Results

YearChampionsScoreRunner-UpVenue
1987 Monmouth (1)92–65 Fairleigh Dickinson West Long Branch, NJ
1988 Robert Morris (1)63–60Monmouth
1989 Wagner (1)66–60Robert Morris Staten Island, NY
1990Fairleigh Dickinson (1)70–65 Mount St. Mary's Emmitsburg, MD
1991Robert Morris (2)69–61Wagner
1992Fairleigh Dickinson (2)78–55Mount St. Mary's
1993Mount St. Mary's (1)82–61 Marist Teaneck, NJ
1994Mount St. Mary's (2)78–67 Saint Francis (PA) Emmitsburg, MD
1995Mount St. Mary's (3)80–61Saint Francis (PA)
1996Saint Francis (PA) (1)83–75Mount St. Mary's
1997Saint Francis (PA) (2)54–42Monmouth Loretto, PA
1998Saint Francis (PA) (3)74–49Wagner
1999Saint Francis (PA) (4)88–76MonmouthStaten Island, NY
2000Saint Francis (PA) (5)74–60Wagner Trenton, NJ
2001 Long Island (1)70–61Mount St. Mary's
2002Saint Francis (PA) (6)74–54Long IslandLoretto, PA
2003Saint Francis (PA) (7)58–41 UMBC
2004Saint Francis (PA) (8)70–55Monmouth
2005Saint Francis (PA) (9)65–50Robert Morris
2006 Sacred Heart (1)69–65 Quinnipiac Fairfield, CT
2007Robert Morris (3)68–66Sacred Heart
2008Robert Morris (4)86–75Long Island Moon Township, PA
2009Sacred Heart (2)74–66Saint Francis (PA)Fairfield, CT
2010Saint Francis (PA) (10)77–68Long Island Brooklyn, NY
2011Saint Francis (PA) (11)72–57MonmouthLoretto, PA
2012Sacred Heart (3)58–48MonmouthFairfield, CT
2013Quinnipiac (1)72–33Saint Francis (PA) Hampden, CT
2014 Robert Morris (5)78–64Saint Francis (PA)Moon Township, PA
2015 St. Francis Brooklyn (1)77–62Robert Morris
2016 Robert Morris (6)56–51Sacred HeartFairfield, CT
2017 Robert Morris (7)65–52 Bryant Moon Township, PA
2018 Saint Francis (PA) (12)66–56Robert MorrisLoretto, PA
2019 Robert Morris (8)65–54Saint Francis (PA)Moon Township, PA
2020 Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Mount St. Mary's (4)70–38WagnerEmmitsburg, MD
2022 Mount St. Mary's (5)60–42Bryant
2023 Sacred Heart (4)72–60Fairleigh Dickinson Hackensack, NJ
2024 Sacred Heart (5)69–48 Le Moyne Fairfield, CT

Champions

SchoolTitlesYears
Saint Francis (PA) 121996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2018
Robert Morris 81988, 1991, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019
Mount St. Mary's 51993, 1994, 1995, 2021, 2022
Sacred Heart 52006, 2009, 2012, 2023, 2024
Fairleigh Dickinson 21990, 1992
St. Francis Brooklyn 12015
Wagner 11989
LIU 12001
Monmouth 11987
Quinnipiac 12013

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References

  1. "NEC Women's Basketball History".
  2. "Northeast Conference WBB Record Book" (PDF). northeastconference.com. Northeast Conference. Retrieved 20 February 2023.