ECAC Men's Basketball Tournaments

The Eastern College Athletic Conference, although not a normal "conference" in the sense we usually think of conferences, does conduct its own tournaments in the post-season and has done so since 1973. The Division I level of this tournament was held from 1973-1981, and effectively determined the NCAA Division I automatic qualifier from among the eastern independents. Other than that exception, the tournaments have served as an invitational event, the participating teams selected from among those teams not invited to participate in the NCAA tournament.

From 1973-1980, four combined Division II/III events (New England, Upstate, Metro, and South) were held annually with the exception of several years when no South tournament was held; beginning in 1981 these were restricted to Division III teams only. Division II was again served with a tournament from 1988-2008, except for 2006; this event has now gone dormant due to the combined effects of the increase in the NCAA Division II Tournament field and a dwindling number of Division II teams which are members of the ECAC. In 2014, the Division II tournament returned, but for only one year; meanwhile, the Upstate and Southern tournaments were reconfigured into the Southeast and Southwest tournaments, and in 2015 the Southern tournaments were again recombined into a single bracket.

Because the fields are small (usually an eight-team bracket), we've chosen to include each individual event for a given year on a single page, rather than having an individual page for each tournament.

Champions

Number in parentheses notes number of championships won to date

Year	III Metro/Upstate	III New England	III South
2016	New Jersey City (7)*	Nichols	Neumann
2015	Staten Island (3)	Southern Vermont	Stevenson (2)
Year	III Metro	III New England	III Southeast	III Southwest	Division II
2014	Staten Island (2)	Johnson & Wales (RI)	Stevenson	Juniata (2)	Lincoln (PA)
Year	III Metro	III New England	III Southern	III Upstate
2013	Old Westbury State (2)	Eastern Connecticut State	Juniata	no championship
2012	Mount Saint Mary	Worcester Tech	Alvernia (2)	Cortland State
2011	Stevens Tech (2)	Brandeis (3)	Lebanon Valley (5)	Hobart
2010	Baruch (2)	Elms	Penn State-Behrend (2)	Ithaca (3)
2009	Lehman	Becker	Washington & Jefferson	Hartwick	Division II
2008	Stevens Tech	Newbury	Carnegie Mellon	Brockport State (2)	Saint Vincent
2007	New York	Western New England	DeSales (2)ˆ	Vassar	Goldey-Beacom
2006	New Jersey City (6)ˆ	Wheaton (MA) (2)	Albright	Ithaca (2)	no championship
2005	Kean (4)	Wheaton (MA)	Franklin & Marshall (3)	Oswego State	Bridgeport (2)†
2004	Ramapo (2)	Western Connecticut State (2)	Lebanon Valley (4)	Geneseo State (3)	Felician
2003	Baruch	Babson	Franklin & Marshall (2)	Rochester Tech (2)	Mansfield (3)†
2002	Ramapo	Massachusetts-Dartmouth	Franklin & Marshall	Saint Lawrence	Southampton
2001	New Jersey City (5)ˆ	Williams (3)	King's (PA)	Geneseo State (2)	Saint Rose (2)
2000	Montclair State	Tufts (3)	Lebanon Valley (3)	Ithaca	Saint Michael's (2)
1999	Fairleigh Dickinson-Madison§	Williams (2)	Penn State-Behrend	New Paltz State	Merrimack (3)
1998	York (NY)	Colby-Sawyer	Lebanon Valley (2)	Plattsburgh State	Merrimack (2)
1997	Drew	Eastern Nazarene	Johns Hopkins	Nazareth	Massachusetts-Lowell
1996	Rutgers-Newark	Amherst (4)	Lincoln (PA) (3)	Oneonta State	Saint Michael's
1995	Kean (3)	Amherst (3)	Alvernia	Fredonia State (2)	New York Tech
1994	Jersey City State (4)ˆ	Western Connecticut State	Lincoln (PA) (2)	Elmira (2)	Adelphi
1993	Jersey City State (3)ˆ	Colby (3)	Lincoln (PA)	Rochester Tech	Saint Rose
1992	Glassboro State§	Brandeis (2)	Dickinson	Hamilton (10)	Millersville
1991	Medgar Evers	Colby (2)	Allentownˆ	Potsdam State (2)	Pace (2)
1990	Stony Brook	Colby	Lebanon Valley	Hamilton (9)	Pace
1989	Kean (2)	Trinity (CT) (4)	Ursinus	Albany (2)	Merrimack
1988	New Jersey Tech (3)	Amherst (2)	Frostburg State	Geneseo State	Dowling
1987	Old Westbury State	Williams	Mary Washington	Hamilton (8)
1986	Staten Island	Trinity (CT) (3)	Catholic	Hamilton (7)
1985	New Jersey Tech (2)	Trinity (CT) (2)	no championship	Fredonia State
1984	Moravian	Trinity (CT)		Hamilton (6)
1983	Jersey City State (2)ˆ	Rhode Island College		Hamilton (5)
1982	New Jersey Tech (2)	Tufts (2)		Hamilton (4)
1981	Jersey City Stateˆ	Massachusetts Maritime		Hamilton (3)
Year	II/III Metro	II/III New England	II/III Southern	II/III Upstate
1980	Monmouth (NJ) (2)	Saint Anselm	Mansfield (2)†	Elmira
1979	Monmouth (NJ)	Sacred Heart	East Stroudsburg (2)	Hamilton (2)
1978	Trenton State (2)§	Quinnipiac (3)	Loyola (MD)	Albany
1977	Kean	Quinnipiac (2)	Mansfield†	Potsdam State
1976	Upsala	Amherst	no championship	Hamilton
1975	Bridgeport†	Quinnipiac	Bloomsburg‡	Union (NY) (2)
1974	Trenton State§	Brandeis	Cheyney	Brockport State
1973	Brooklyn	Tufts	East Stroudsburg	Union (NY)

‡ Bloomsburg is listed as the 1975 champion by the ECAC; contemporary news reports show Cheyney defeating Bloomsburg, 86-81, in the championship. Either these reports are incorrect, the ECAC has erred, or Cheyney was forced to vacate this game.

Disambiguation Notes

Two schools have won multiple ECAC titles in different divisions (†):

• Mansfield won two ECAC II/III South titles, then won an ECAC Division II title
• Bridgeport won an ECAC II/III Metro title, then won an ECAC Division II title

Two schools have won ECAC titles under two different names (ˆ):

• Jersey City State became New Jersey City University
• Allentown became DeSales

Three schools have won ECAC titles under former names, but not since their name change (§):

• Fairleigh Dickinson-Madison later became Fairleigh Dickinson-Florham
• Glassboro State later became Rowan
• Trenton State later became College of New Jersey