New York City is sitting atop the NEC

(AP) New York City is the geographic midpoint of NEC, but now it is the place where the standings are concentrated as well. The top three teams in the league all hail from inside the five boroughs of the greatest city in the world. As recently as a few seasons ago that would’ve seemed awfully strange. From 2004-05 through the 2009-10 season none of the New York schools finished in the top three of the NEC standings. That all changed when LIU Brooklyn (formerly Long Island) went 15-2 and won the conference title last season. In 2011-12 conference play is two-thirds of the way complete and the trio of LIU, Wagner and St. Francis (NY) have lost just one game to a team outside the city limits. That would be LIU’s 75-66 loss at Robert Morris on January 26. But it’s the Blackbirds that are currently atop the NEC standings at 11-1. That one blemish to the Colonials is their only defeat. Jim Ferry’s team also managed to hand Wagner its only two losses this season. Co...