2022 ASUN men's basketball tournament

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2022 ASUN Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 202122
Teams12
SiteCampus sites
Champions Bellarmine
Winning coach Scott Davenport (1st title)
MVP Dylan Penn (Bellarmine)
Television ESPN+, ESPN
  2021
2023  

The 2022 ASUN men's basketball tournament was the conference postseason tournament for the ASUN Conference. The tournament was the 43rd year the league has conducted a postseason tournament. The tournament was held March 1, 3, 5, and 8, 2022 at campus sites of the higher seeds. The winner, Bellarmine, did not receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament due to not being eligible because of a transition from Division II. Instead the regular season conference champion, Jacksonville State, was awarded the conference's automatic bid.

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2021–22 ASUN men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
East
Liberty 124 .7502211  .667
Jacksonville 115 .6882110  .677
Florida Gulf Coast 106 .6252212  .647
Kennesaw State 79 .4381318  .419
North Florida 79 .4381120  .355
Stetson 511 .3131119  .367
West
Jacksonville State^133 .8132111  .656
Bellarmine* †115 .6882013  .606
Central Arkansas 79 .4381120  .355
Lipscomb 610 .3751419  .424
Eastern Kentucky 511 .3131318  .419
North Alabama*214 .125921  .300
* ineligible for the 2022 NCAA tournament due to transition from Division II
^ Due to Bellarmine's ineligibility, the regular season champions Jacksonville State took their NCAA tournament berth instead.
2022 ASUN Tournament winner

Seeds

All teams in the conference qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by their record in conference play, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top two teams from each division received byes into the quarterfinals. Kennesaw State got a higher seed than North Florida through the NET ranking tiebreaker.

The two tiebreakers used by the ASUN are: 1) head-to-head record of teams with identical record and 2) NCAA NET Rankings available on day following the conclusion of ASUN regular season play. These tiebreakers are also used to separate teams with the same seed from opposite divisions if necessary. This proved relevant when both #2 seeds, Bellarmine and Jacksonville, advanced to the championship game. With both having identical conference records, the tiebreaker was applied, and Bellarmine received home court by virtue of its win over Jacksonville in the teams' only regular-season game.

SeedSchoolConference NET ranking [1]
(February 28th, 2021)
#1 East Liberty 12–4116th
#1 West Jacksonville State 13–3138th
#2 East Jacksonville 11–5168th
#2 West Bellarmine 11–5220th
#3 East Florida Gulf Coast 10–6189th
#3 West Central Arkansas 7–9319th
#4 East Kennesaw State 7–9230th
#4 West Lipscomb 6–10276th
#5 East North Florida 7–9274th
#5 West Eastern Kentucky 5–11265th
#6 East Stetson 5–11306th
#6 West North Alabama 2–14314th

Schedule

GameTime [2] Matchup [3] ScoreTelevision
First round – Tuesday, March 1 – Campus Sites
16:00 pmE6 Stetson at W3 Central Arkansas73–74 ESPN+
26:00 pmW5 Eastern Kentucky at E4 Kennesaw State73–82
36:00 pmW6 North Alabama at E3 Florida Gulf Coast72–81
46:00 pmE5 North Florida at W4 Lipscomb65–74
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 3 – Campus Sites
56:00 pmW3 Central Arkansas at E2 Jacksonville69–79 ESPN+
66:00 pmE4 Kennesaw State at W1 Jacksonville State67–78
76:00 pmE3 Florida Gulf Coast at W2 Bellarmine68–81
86:00 pmW4 Lipscomb at E1 Liberty47–52
Semifinals – Saturday, March 5 – Campus Sites
96:00 pmE2 Jacksonville at W1 Jacksonville State54–51 ESPN+
105:00 pmW2 Bellarmine at E1 Liberty53–50
Championship – Tuesday, March 8 – Campus Sites
114:00 pmE2 Jacksonville at W2 Bellarmine72–77 ESPN
Game times in CT. Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

Because Bellarmine won the ASUN Tournament, the conference's top overall seed, Jacksonville State, claimed the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The same would have applied if North Alabama had won the tournament, but the Lions were eliminated in the first round. [4]

First Round
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 ESPN+
Quarterfinals
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 ESPN+
Semifinals
Saturday, March 5th, 2022 ESPN+
Championship game
Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 ESPN
2E Jacksonville79
3W Central Arkansas743W Central Arkansas 69
6E Stetson 73 2E Jacksonville54
1W Jacksonville State 51
1W Jacksonville State78
4E Kennesaw State824E Kennesaw State 67
5W Eastern Kentucky 73 2E Jacksonville 72
2W Bellarmine77
2W Bellarmine81
3E Florida Gulf Coast813E Florida Gulf Coast 68
6W North Alabama 72 2WBellarmine53
1E Liberty 50
1E Liberty52
4W Lipscomb744W Lipscomb 47
5E North Florida 65

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