2003 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2003 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200203
Teams 8
Site Spiro Sports Center
Staten Island, NY
Finals site Spiro Sports Center
Staten Island, NY
Champions Wagner (1st title)
Winning coach Dereck Whittenburg (1st title)
MVP Jermaine Hal (WAGNER)
Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2002  2004»
2002–03 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Wagner 14 4   .778     21 11   .656
Monmouth 13 5   .722     15 13   .536
Central Connecticut 12 6   .667     15 13   .536
Quinnipiac 10 8   .556     17 12   .586
Saint Francis (PA) 10 8   .556     14 14   .500
St. Francis (NY) 9 9   .500     14 16   .467
Fairleigh Dickinson 9 9   .500     15 14   .517
Long Island 7 11   .389     9 19   .321
Robert Morris 7 11   .389     10 17   .370
Mount St. Mary's 6 12   .333     11 16   .407
Sacred Heart 6 12   .333     8 21   .276
UMBC 5 13   .278     7 20   .259
2003 NEC Tournament winner

The 2003 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March. The tournament featured the league's top eight seeds. Wagner won the championship, its first, and received the conferences automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Tournament.

Format

The NEC Men’s Basketball Tournament consisted of an eight-team playoff format with the quarterfinal and semifinal games played at the Spiro Sports Center in Staten Island, NY. The Championship game was played at the court of the highest remaining seed, Wagner.

Bracket

Quarterfinals
Spiro Sports Center
Semifinals
Spiro Sports Center
Championship Game
Spiro Sports Center
         
1 Wagner 88
8 LIU Brooklyn 66
1 Wagner 61
4 Quinnipiac 54
4 Quinnipiac 75
5 Saint Francis (PA) 57
1 Wagner 78
6 St. Francis (NY) 61
2 Monmouth 61
7 Fairleigh Dickinson 63
6 St. Francis (NY) 88
7 Fairleigh Dickinson 66
3 Central Connecticut 62
6 St. Francis (NY) 67

All-tournament team

Tournament MVP in bold.[1]

2003 NEC All-Tournament Team

Jermaine Hall, WAGNER
Rashaun Banjo, QU
John Quintana, SFNY
Dedrick Dye, WAGNER
Courtney Pritchard, WAGNER

References

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