Get To Know a College Basketball Mid-Major: NEC

You know all about the Power 5 conferences in college basketball. You hear about those more than any other, and those groups often dominate the March Madness conversation. There are 26 other conferences out there, however, and our goal is to get you up to speed on the teams, players and fights in the standings to know before the conference tournaments, Selection Sunday and the official start of March Madness. It’s time for you to get to know a mid-major: this time, it’s the NEC. Formerly the Northeast Conference until this season — and before that, the ECAC Metro Conference — the NEC formed in 1981. While the membership has fluctuated quite a bit, especially in recent years, the NEC...