1999 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament

1999 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	1998–99
Teams	8
Site	Spiro Sports Center Staten Island, NY
Champions	Mount St. Mary's (2nd title)
Winning coach	Jim Phelan (2nd title)
MVP	Gregory Harris (Mount St. Mary's)
Northeast Conference men's basketball tournaments

The 1999 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament was held in March. The tournament featured the league's top eight seeds. Mount St. Mary's won the championship, their second, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 1999 NCAA Tournament.

1998–99 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
UMBC	17	–	3		.850			19	–	9		.679
St. Francis Brooklyn	16	–	4		.800			20	–	8		.714
Robert Morris	12	–	8		.600			15	–	12		.556
Central Connecticut	11	–	9		.550			19	–	13		.594
Long Island	10	–	10		.500			10	–	17		.370
Mount St. Mary's†	10	–	10		.500			15	–	15		.500
Fairleigh Dickinson	9	–	11		.450			12	–	16		.429
Wagner	7	–	13		.350			9	–	18		.333
Saint Francis (PA)	7	–	13		.350			9	–	17		.346
Quinnipiac	6	–	14		.300			9	–	18		.333
Monmouth	5	–	15		.250			5	–	21		.192
† 1999 NEC tournament winner

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	UMBC	63
	8	Wagner	56
						1	UMBC	72
						4	Central Connecticut	82
	4	Central Connecticut	67
	5	Long Island	58
											4	Central Connecticut	56
											6	Mount St. Mary's	72
	2	St. Francis Brooklyn	65
	7	Fairleigh Dickinson	58
						2	St. Francis Brooklyn	66
						6	Mount St. Mary's	68
	3	Robert Morris	63
	6	Mount St. Mary's	80

All-tournament team

Tournament MVP in bold.

1999 NEC All-Tournament Team

Gregory Harris, MSM Corsley Edwards, CCSU Ray Minlend, SFNY Terence Ward, UMBC Charron Watson, CCSU Melvin Whitaker, MSM