Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Sport	Basketball
Conference	Northeast Conference
Number of teams	8
Format	Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium	Campus of highest seed
Played	1982–present
Last contest	2016
Current champion	Fairleigh Dickinson
Most championships	Robert Morris (8)
Official website	NEC Men's Basketball

The Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in basketball for the Northeast Conference. The tournament has been held every year since the 1981–82 season, when the Northeast Conference was established. It is a eight-team single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. After the quarterfinals, the teams are shuffled so the highest remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals. The tournament winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA basketball tournament.

Robert Morris is the program that has won the most NEC Tournament Championships (8) followed by LIU Brooklyn (5). LIU Brooklyn has been the only program to win three consecutive tournament championships, from 2011–2013. Robert Morris has won back-to-back championships on three occasions (1982-83, 1989-90 and 2009-10), the only other programs to win back-to-back championships, Marist and Rider, are no longer members of the NEC.

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