2004 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2004 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2003–04
Teams	8
Site	Spiro Sports Center Staten Island, NY
Finals site	William T. Boylan Gymnasium West Long Branch, NJ
Champions	Monmouth (3rd title)
Winning coach	Dave Calloway (2nd title)
MVP	Blake Hamilton (MONMOUTH)
Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments «2003  2005»

2003–04 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Monmouth†	12	–	6		.667			21	–	12		.636
St. Francis (NY)	12	–	6		.667			15	–	13		.536
Fairleigh Dickinson	11	–	7		.611			17	–	12		.586
Robert Morris	10	–	8		.556			14	–	15		.483
Saint Francis (PA)	10	–	8		.556			13	–	15		.464
Wagner	10	–	8		.556			13	–	16		.448
Central Connecticut	9	–	9		.500			14	–	14		.500
Mount St. Mary's	8	–	10		.444			10	–	19		.345
Sacred Heart	8	–	10		.444			12	–	15		.444
Quinnipiac	5	–	13		.278			9	–	20		.310
Long Island	4	–	14		.222			8	–	19		.296
† 2004 NEC Tournament winner

The 2004 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March. The tournament featured the league's top eight seeds. Monmouth won the championship, its third, and received the conferences automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Tournament.

Format

The NEC Men’s Basketball Tournament will consist 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, Monmouth.

Bracket

	Quarterfinals Spiro Sports Center					Semifinals Spiro Sports Center					Championship Game William T. Boylan Gymnasium
	1	Monmouth	64
	8	Mount St. Mary's	52
						1	Monmouth	67
						4	Robert Morris	45
	4	Robert Morris	58
	5	Saint Francis (PA)	43
											1	Monmouth	67
											7	Central Connecticut	55
	2	St. Francis (NY)	68
	7	Central Connecticut	81
						3	Fairleigh Dickinson	73
						7	Central Connecticut	76
	3	Fairleigh Dickinson	69
	6	Wagner	67

• Semifinal game, CCSU vs. FDU went into overtime.

All-tournament team

Tournament MVP in bold.^[1]

2004 NEC All-Tournament Team

Blake Hamilton, MONMOUTH Tamien Trent, FDU Ron Robinson, CCSU Dwayne Byfield, MONMOUTH Tyler Azzarelli, MONMOUTH

References

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