1995 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament

1995 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
1995 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	1994–95
Teams	10
Finals site	Alumni Gymnasium; Lawrenceville, NJ
Champions	Mount St. Mary's (1st title)
Winning coach	Jim Phelan (1st title)
MVP	Silas Cheung (Mount St. Mary's)
	Northeast Conference men's basketball tournaments ← 1994 1996 →

The 1995 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament was held in March. The tournament featured the league's ten teams, seeded based on their conference record. Mount St. Mary's won the championship, their first, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Tournament.

1994–95 Northeast Conference men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Rider	13	–	5	.722	18	–	11	.621
Mount St. Mary's †	12	–	6	.667	17	–	13	.567
Marist	12	–	6	.667	17	–	11	.607
Monmouth	11	–	7	.611	13	–	14	.481
Fairleigh Dickinson	11	–	7	.611	16	–	12	.571
Wagner	9	–	9	.500	10	–	17	.370
Long Island	8	–	10	.444	11	–	17	.393
Saint Francis (PA)	7	–	11	.389	12	–	16	.429
St. Francis Brooklyn	5	–	13	.278	9	–	18	.333
Robert Morris	2	–	16	.111	4	–	23	.148

† 1995 NEC tournament winner

Format

The NEC Men's Basketball Tournament consisted of a ten-team playoff format with all games played at the venue of the higher seed. The first round was played by the four lowest seeds (7–10) and the other teams received a bye.

Bracket

First round			Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Championship Game

			1	Rider	95
8	Saint Francis (PA)	95	8	Saint Francis (PA)	76
9	St. Francis Brooklyn	76				1	Rider	76
						5	Fairleigh Dickinson	65
			4	Monmouth	71
			5	Fairleigh Dickinson	73
									1	Rider	62
									2	Mount St. Mary's	69
			2	Mount St. Mary's	68
7	Long Island	87	10	Long Island	67
10	Robert Morris	80				2	Mount St. Mary's	84
						3	Marist	79
			3	Marist	91
			6	Wagner	75

All-tournament team

Tournament MVP in bold.^[1]

1995 NEC All-Tournament Team
Silas Cheung, MSM Randy Edney, MSM Joe Griffin, LIU Deon Hames, RID Riley Inge, MSM Charles Smith, RID

References

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

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

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