2017 – 18 LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men 's basketball team represented The Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University during the 2017 – 18 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The Blackbirds , led by first-year head coach Derek Kellogg , played their home games at the Steinberg Wellness Center , with several home games at the Barclays Center , as members of the Northeast Conference . They finished the season 18 – 17 , 10 – 8 in NEC play to finish in a tie for fourth place . As the No. 4 seed in the NEC Tournament , they defeated St. Francis Brooklyn , Fairleigh Dickinson , and Wagner to become NEC Tournament champions . They earned the NEC 's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament where they lost in the First Four to Radford
NEC Tournament
2018 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
2017–18 LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball team