1999 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
# 1999 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament

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.

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