East Coast Tournament Champions

Full list of East Coast Conference (ECC) Tournament men’s basketball champions, including head coach, by year. Bold means team went on to win the NCAA National Championship the same year. The East Coast Conference was active from 1974-75 through the 1993-94 season, forming from members of the Middle Atlantic Conference. When the NCAA created Division I, II and III designations, the 12 biggest programs from the Middle Atlantic left to form the East Coast Conference. La Salle won the most Big Eight Tournament titles (4), followed by Hofstra and Towson (3 each). See also: East Coast Regular Season Champions

Season	Champion	Head Coach
1975	La Salle	Paul Westhead
1976	Hofstra	Roger Gaeckler
1977	Hofstra (2)	Roger Gaeckler (2)
1978	La Salle (2)	Paul Westhead (2)
1979	Temple	Don Casey
1980	La Salle (3)	Lefty Ervin
1981	Saint Joseph’s	Jim Lynam
1982	Saint Joseph’s (2)	Jim Boyle
1983	La Salle (4)	Lefty Ervin (2)
1984	Rider	John Carpenter
1985	Lehigh	Tom Schneider
1986	Drexel	Eddie Burke
1987	Bucknell	Charlie Woollum
1988	Lehigh (2)	Fran McCaffery
1989	Bucknell (2)	Charlie Woollum (2)
1990	Towson State	Terry Truax
1991	Towson State (2)	Terry Truax (2)
1992	Towson State (3)	Terry Truax (3)
1993	none	none
1994	Hofstra (3)	Butch van Breda Kolff

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