Garden City, N.Y. - The 2019-20 season marked our 10th year in the NE10, and to celebrate that milestone, the Adelphi University Department of Athletics is looking back on some of its most iconic moments and accomplishments with the conference.

In May 2016, Missy Traversi was chosen to succeed Heather Jacobs as Adelphi's head women's basketball coach, after Jacobs accepted a head coaching job at Division I Wagner College.

The 2016-17 campaign was going to be Traversi's first crack at the helm of the program.

The team was loaded with exceptional talent. Especially, Calli Balfour and Sierra Clark -- both of whom went on to re-write records at Adelphi.

To date, Balfour holds the school's career records for games played (118) and steals (294), while Clark ranks Top 10 all-time at the University in scoring (1,251 points), field goals made (488) and blocks (134).

In the 2016-17 season, Clark became the program's first WBCA Second Team All-American, after setting the school's single-season record for scoring with 626 points.

The upperclassmen on the roster already knew what it took to win a championship, after playing on the squad that won an NE10 title in 2014-15.

With a unit that limited teams to the lowest scoring output of any team in the conference, the Panthers were nearly unstoppable.

Adelphi won all but four regular-season games that season, and defended its home court quite nicely in the process -- to the tune of an undefeated 12-0 regular-season record on its own floor.

In all, the Panthers concluded the regular season with a 23-4 overall record and an impeccable 18-2 mark in conference play to earn the program's third NE10 regular-season title.

With the No. 1 seed in the NE10 Tournament, Traversi's squad led by a possession or were tied heading into the fourth quarter of its first-round and semifinal contests against Southern Connecticut and Le Moyne, respectively.

Adelphi saved its best play for the fourth quarter, when the Panthers outscored both their opponents by double digits to advance to the NE10 Championship final for the third time in school history.

The Brown and Gold were set to welcome in their top-seeded counterparts from the Northeast Division in Bentley, which had the two-time NE10 Player of the Year on its roster in Jen Gemma.

In a showdown of two Top 15 nationally-ranked teams with the NE10 title on the line, Adelphi and Bentley went toe-to-toe and traded buckets for much of the contest, until seemingly -- again -- the fourth quarter, when the Panthers reeled off a 12-4 run that expanded the lead from one possession to a nine-point game with 3:19 left.

As Adelphi limited Bentley to just 1-of-10 shooting in the final minutes, Balfour and Niajah Morgan both hit crucial foul shots down the stretch to seal their opposition's fate and help deliver the Panthers their second NE10 Tournament crown.

Balfour and Morgan were both named to the NE10 All-Championship Team, with Clark headlining it as the Most Outstanding Player. Clark averaged 15.0 points per game in the tournament, along with clips of 8.3 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game.