2001 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2001 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200001
Teams 8
Site Sovereign Bank Arena
Trenton, NJ
Champions Monmouth (2nd title)
Winning coach Dave Calloway (1st title)
MVP Rahsaan Johnson (MU)
Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2000  2002»
2000–01 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
St. Francis (NY) 16 4   .800     18 11   .621
Monmouth 15 5   .750     21 10   .677
UMBC 13 7   .650     18 11   .621
Long Island 12 8   .600     12 16   .429
Wagner 11 9   .550     16 13   .552
Central Connecticut 11 9   .550     14 14   .500
Fairleigh Dickinson 10 10   .500     13 15   .464
Saint Francis (PA) 9 11   .450     9 18   .333
Mount St. Mary's 7 13   .350     7 21   .250
Robert Morris 7 13   .350     7 22   .241
Sacred Heart 6 14   .300     7 21   .250
Quinnipiac 3 17   .150     6 21   .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 conferences automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Tournament.

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
                           
  4  Long Island 83    
  5  Wagner 88    
        1  St. Francis (NY) 72  
            5  Wagner 65    
               
      1  St. Francis (NY) 64
  2  Monmouth 71               2  Monmouth 67
  7  Fairleigh Dickinson 59              
        2  Monmouth 67    
        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

References

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