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. The 10 founding members of the conference in 1965 were:

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, Long Island University,

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, Saint Peter's,

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, Iona,

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and St. Francis. For the 1967–68 season NYU left the conference to become an independent, and for the 1968–69 season St. Francis followed. By 1969 the conference was defunct.

Men's basketball champions

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