2022 ASUN women's basketball tournament

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2022 ASUN Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 202122
Teams12
SiteCampus sites
Champions Florida Gulf Coast (9th title)
Winning coach Karl Smesko (9th title)
MVP Kierstan Bell (FGCU)
Television ESPN+,
  2021
2023  

The 2022 ASUN women's basketball tournament was the conference postseason tournament for the ASUN Conference. This was the 43rd season in which the league has conducted a postseason tournament. The tournament was held March 2, 6, 9, and 12, 2022, at campus sites of the higher seeds. Florida Gulf Coast, winners of the conference's East Division and also with the best overall conference record, won the tournament and with it the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Contents

2021–22 ASUN women's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
East
No. 23 Florida Gulf Coast151 .938303  .909
Liberty 142 .875285  .848
Stetson 115 .6882012  .625
Jacksonville 88 .5001613  .552
North Florida 511 .3131317  .433
Kennesaw State 511 .313919  .321
West
Jacksonville State 133 .813248  .750
North Alabama*88 .5001316  .448
Eastern Kentucky 79 .4381516  .484
Lipscomb 511 .3131020  .333
Central Arkansas 412 .250919  .321
Bellarmine*115 .063424  .143
* ineligible for the 2022 NCAA tournament due to transition from Division II
2022 ASUN Tournament winner
Rankings from AP poll

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.

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 determine home court should teams with identical divisional seedings and conference records advance to the championship game (which happened in the 2022 ASUN men's tournament).

SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker
#1 East Florida Gulf Coast 15–1
#1 West Jacksonville State 13–3
#2 East Liberty 14–2
#2 West North Alabama 8–8
#3 East Stetson 11–5
#3 West Eastern Kentucky 7–9
#4 East Jacksonville 8–8
#4 West Lipscomb 5–11
#5 East North Florida 5–11Superior NET Ranking to Kennesaw State
#5 West Central Arkansas 5–11
#6 East Kennesaw State 5–11Lost NET to North Florida
#6 West Bellarmine 1–15

Schedule

GameTime [1] Matchup [2] ScoreTelevision
First round – Wednesday, March 2 – Campus Sites
15:00 pmW6 Bellarmine at E3 Stetson 53–81 ESPN+
26:00 pmW5 Central Arkansas at E4 Jacksonville55–65
36:00 pmE6 Kennesaw State at W3 Eastern Kentucky57–71
47:00 pmE5 North Florida at W4 Lipscomb60–42
Quarterfinals – Sunday, March 6– Campus Sites
51:00 pmW3 Eastern Kentucky at E2 Liberty57–77 ESPN+
61:00 pmE5 North Florida at E1 Florida Gulf Coast60–71
73:00 pmE4 Jacksonville at W1 Jacksonville State56–70
83:30 pmE3 Stetson at W2 North Alabama64–53
Semifinals – Wednesday, March 9 – Campus Sites
96:00 pmE2 Liberty at W1 Jacksonville State57–59 ESPN+
106:00 pmE3 Stetson at E1 Florida Gulf Coast67–82
Championship – Saturday, March 12 – Campus Sites
116:00 pmW1 Jacksonville State at E1 Florida Gulf Coast54-69 ESPN+
Game times in CT. Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

If North Alabama or Bellarmine had won the ASUN Tournament, the conference's top overall seed, Florida Gulf Coast, would have claimed the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. However, both lost their first tournament games.

First round
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
ESPN+
Quarterfinals
Sunday, March 6, 2022
ESPN+
Semifinals
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
ESPN+
Championship game
Saturday, March 12, 2022
ESPN+
2ELiberty77
3WEastern Kentucky713W Eastern Kentucky 57
6E Kennesaw State 57 2E Liberty 57
1WJacksonville State59
1WJacksonville State70
4EJacksonville654E Jacksonville 56
5W Central Arkansas 55 1W Jacksonville State 54
1EFlorida Gulf Coast69
2W North Alabama 53
3EStetson813EStetson64
6W Bellarmine 53 3E Stetson 67
1EFlorida Gulf Coast82
1EFlorida Gulf Coast71
4W Lipscomb 42 5E North Florida 60
5ENorth Florida60

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