1998 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1998 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 199798
Teams 8
Site William H. Detrick Gymnasium
New Britain, CT
Finals site Schwartz Athletic Center
Brooklyn, NY
Champions Fairleigh Dickinson (3rd title)
Winning coach Tom Green (3rd title)
MVP Rahshon Turner (FDU)
Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«1997  1999»
1997–98 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Long Island 14 12   .538     21 11   .656
Fairleigh Dickinson 13 3   .813     23 7   .767
St. Francis (NY) 10 6   .625     15 12   .556
Saint Francis (PA) 10 6   .625     17 10   .630
Mount St. Mary's 8 8   .500     13 15   .464
Wagner 7 9   .438     13 16   .448
Robert Morris 4 12   .250     8 19   .296
Monmouth 3 13   .188     4 23   .148
Central Connecticut 3 13   .188     4 22   .154
1998 NEC Tournament winner

The 1998 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March. The tournament featured the league's top eight seeds. Fairleigh Dickinson won the championship, their third, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Tournament.

Format

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

Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship Game
         
1 Long Island 108
8 Monmouth 79
1 Long Island 93
5 Mount St. Mary's 73
4 Saint Francis (PA) 50
5 Mount St. Mary's 69
1 Long Island 91
2 Fairleigh Dickinson 105
2 Fairleigh Dickinson 89
7 Robert Morris 73
2 Fairleigh Dickinson 78
6 Wagner 49
3 St. Francis (NY) 76
6 Wagner 77OT

All-tournament team

Tournament MVP in bold.[1]

1998 NEC All-Tournament Team

Rahshon Turner, FDU
Elijah Allen, FDU
Mike Campbell, LIU
Gregory Harris, MSM
Charles Jones, LIU
Richie Parker, LIU

References

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