2006 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2006 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 200506
Teams 8
Site Campus sites
Finals site Rothman Center
Hackensack, NJ
Champions Monmouth (4th title)
Winning coach Dave Calloway (3rd title)
MVP Marques Alston (Monmouth)
Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
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2005–06 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Fairleigh Dickinson 14 4   .778     20 12   .625
Central Connecticut 13 5   .722     18 11   .621
Monmouth 12 6   .667     19 15   .559
Mount St. Mary's 11 7   .611     13 17   .433
Robert Morris 10 8   .556     15 14   .517
Long Island 9 9   .500     12 16   .429
Sacred Heart 8 10   .444     11 17   .393
Quinnipiac 7 11   .389     12 16   .429
St. Francis (NY) 7 11   .389     10 17   .370
Wagner 6 12   .333     13 14   .481
Saint Francis (PA) 2 16   .111     4 24   .143
2006 NEC Tournament winner

The 2006 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March. The tournament featured the league's top eight seeds. Monmouth won the championship, its first, and received the conferences automatic bid to the 2006 NCAA Tournament.

Format

For the second straight year, the NEC Men’s Basketball Tournament will consist of an eight-team playoff format with all games played at the home of the higher seed. After the quarterfinals, the teams will be reseeded so the highest remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals.

Bracket

  Quarterfinals Reseeded Semifinals Championship Game
                           
  1  Fairleigh Dickinson 66
8  Quinnipiac 65
1  Fairleigh Dickinson 71  
5  Robert Morris 55  
2  Central Connecticut 86
  7  Sacred Heart 68
    1  Fairleigh Dickinson 48
  3  Monmouth 49
  3  Monmouth 74
6  LIU Brooklyn 63
2  Central Connecticut 48
3  Monmouth 62  
4  Mount St. Mary's 66
  5  Robert Morris 67

All-tournament team

Tournament MVP in bold.[1]

2006 NEC All-Tournament Team

Marques Alston, MU
Chris Kenny, MU
Andrea Crosariol, FDU
Chad Timberlake, FDU
Jeremy Chappell, RMU

References

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