2020 ASUN men's basketball tournament explained

Year:2020
Conference:ASUN
Division:I
Gender:Men's
Teams:8
Arena:Campus sites
Champions:Liberty
Titlecount:2nd
Coach:Ritchie McKay
Coachcount:2nd
Mvp:Caleb Homesley
Mvpteam:Liberty
Television:ESPN, ESPN+

The 2020 ASUN men's basketball tournament is the conference postseason tournament for the ASUN Conference. The tournament is the 41st year the league has conducted a postseason tournament. The tournament will be held March 3, 5, and 8, 2020 at campus sites of the higher seeds. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.[1]

Seeds

The top eight teams in the conference standings qualify for the tournament. The teams are seeded by record in conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

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.

SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker
1Liberty13–3NET Ranking: 64
2North Florida13–3NET Ranking: 153
3Lipscomb9–7NET Ranking: 256
4Stetson9–7NET Ranking: 306
5North Alabama8–8
6Florida Gulf Coast7–92–0 vs. Jacksonville
7Jacksonville7–90–2 vs. FGCU
8NJIT6–10
DNQKennesaw State0–16

Schedule

GameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendance
Quarterfinals – Tuesday, March 3
17:00 pmNo. 8 NJIT vs. No. 1 Liberty49–55ESPN+3,042
27:00 pmNo. 5 North Alabama at No. 4 Stetson72–82681
37:00 pmNo. 7 Jacksonville at No. 2 North Florida88–912,797
48:00 pmNo. 6 Florida Gulf Coast at No. 3 Lipscomb63–662,191
Semifinals – Thursday, March 5
57:00 pmNo. 4 Stetson at No. 1 Liberty62–66ESPN+2,966
67:00 pmNo. 3 Lipscomb at No. 2 North Florida73–712,736
Championship – Sunday, March 8
73:00 pmNo. 3 Lipscomb at No. 1 Liberty57–73ESPN7,422
Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seeding. All games hosted by higher-seeded team.

Game summaries

Championship

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020 ASUN Men's Basketball Championship . ASUN Conference . 2022-04-19 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220419030121/https://asunsports.org/sports/mbkb/championship/2019-20/2020_ASUN_Men-s_Basketball_Championship . 2022-04-19.