The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the NCAA. Teams in the NEC compete in Division I for all sports except football, which competes in the Division I Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). Participating schools are primarily located in the Northeastern United States.
The conference was named the ECAC Metro Conference when it was established in 1981. The original eleven member schools were Fairleigh Dickinson University, Long Island University, Loyola College in Maryland (left in 1989), Marist College (left in 1997), Robert Morris University, St. Francis College (N.Y.), St. Francis College (Pa.), Siena College (left in 1984), Towson State University (left in 1982), the University of Baltimore (left in 1983) and Wagner College.
The conference's name was changed to its present form on August 1, 1988. Other names considered were Big North, Great North, North Shore, Northern, Northeastern, Eastern and Eastern Private Intercollegiate.
The Northeast Conference has expanded seven times since 1981. The expansions and additions from the original charter members were in 1985 (Monmouth University, which left in 2013), 1989 (Mount St. Mary's University), 1992 (Rider University, which left in 1997), 1997 (Central Connecticut State University), 1998 (Quinnipiac University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County which respectively left in 2013 and 2003), 1999 (Sacred Heart University) and 2008 (Bryant University). The Northeast Conference's ranks was largest at 12 in 2008 with the addition of Bryant University, but dropped to 10 in 2013 with the departure of Monmouth and Quinnipiac for the MAAC.
The Northeast Conference has a total of 10 full members in 22 championship sports: baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, women’s bowling, men’s and women’s cross country, football, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s indoor track & field, women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s outdoor track & field, men’s and women’s soccer, softball, women’s swimming, men’s and women’s tennis, and women’s volleyball.
Men's lacrosse became the league’s 23rd sport for the 2011 season. The number of sports dropped to 22 after the 2012â€"13 school year, when the conference dropped field hockey. The departure of Monmouth and Quinnipiac to become all-sports members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) in July 2013 gave the MAAC four full members that sponsored the sport; the other two were NEC single-sport affiliates Rider and Siena. The MAAC then decided to add field hockey as a sponsored sport for the 2013 season, and all of the NEC's remaining field hockey programs eventually joined the MAAC except for Saint Francis (PA), which joined the Atlantic 10 Conference.
There are also seven affiliate members which compete in football, men's lacrosse, and women's bowling.
Member schools
Full members
Current full members
Former full members
- Note
* - The University of Baltimore's intercollegiate athletics were dropped following their departure from the NEC.
Affiliate members
Current affiliate members
Former affiliate members
Membership timeline
Full members Full members (non-football) Football Affiliate Affiliate member (other sports) Other Conference Other Conference
Sports Sponsored
The Northeast Conference sponsors championship competition in ten men's and twelve women's NCAA sanctioned sports. Seven schools are associate members in three of those sports.
Men's basketball champions
Tournament championships by school
Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Locations
Football champions
NEC Rivalries
Before the 2013 departure of Monmouth and Quinnipiac, the NEC had 6 rivalry matchups in the conference; which is most prevalent during NEC's men's and women's basketball "Rivalry Week." The concept of playing back-to-back games against a local rival the same week is the only one of its kind among the nation's 31 NCAA Division I conferences. The pre-2013 NEC rivalries are as follows (with the current NEC team listed first in the matchups that are now non-conference):
- Currently in-conference
- Battle of Brooklyn: Long Island vs. St. Francis (NY)
- Keystone Clash: Robert Morris vs. Saint Francis (PA)
- The Duel in New England: Central Connecticut vs. Bryant
- North-South Showdown: Mount St. Mary's vs. Wagner
- Non-conference as of 2013â€"14
- Garden State Rivalry: Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Monmouth
- Governor's Cup: Sacred Heart vs. Quinnipiac
Brenda Weare Commissioner's Cup
Facilities
References
External links
- Official website
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