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1999 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament

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1999 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season1998–99
Teams8
SiteSpiro Sports Center
Staten Island, NY
ChampionsMount St. Mary's (2nd title)
Winning coachJim Phelan (2nd title)
MVPGregory Harris (Mount St. Mary's)
← 1998
2000 →

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.

1998–99 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
UMBC 17 3   .850 19 9   .679
St. Francis Brooklyn 16 4   .800 20 8   .714
Robert Morris 12 8   .600 15 12   .556
Central Connecticut 11 9   .550 19 13   .594
Long Island 10 10   .500 10 17   .370
Mount St. Mary's 10 10   .500 15 15   .500
Fairleigh Dickinson 9 11   .450 12 16   .429
Wagner 7 13   .350 9 18   .333
Saint Francis (PA) 7 13   .350 9 17   .346
Quinnipiac 6 14   .300 9 18   .333
Monmouth 5 15   .250 5 21   .192
1999 NEC tournament winner

Format

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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

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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 Brooklyn 65
7 Fairleigh Dickinson 58
2 St. Francis Brooklyn 66
6 Mount St. Mary's 68
3 Robert Morris 63
6 Mount St. Mary's 80

All-tournament team

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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

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