2022 ASUN women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2022
Conference:ASUN
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:12
Arena:Campus sites
Champions:Florida Gulf Coast
Titlecount:9th
Coach:Karl Smesko
Coachcount:9th
Mvp:Kierstan Bell
Mvpteam:FGCU
Television:ESPN+,

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.

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. 1 East
Florida Gulf Coast15–1
  1. 1 West
Jacksonville State13–3
  1. 2 East
Liberty14–2
  1. 2 West
North Alabama8–8
  1. 3 East
Stetson11–5
  1. 3 West
Eastern Kentucky7–9
  1. 4 East
Jacksonville8–8
  1. 4 West
Lipscomb5–11
  1. 5 East
North Florida5–11Superior NET Ranking to Kennesaw State
  1. 5 West
Central Arkansas5–11
  1. 6 East
Kennesaw State5–11Lost NET to North Florida
  1. 6 West
Bellarmine1–15

Schedule

GameTime [1] Matchup[2] ScoreTelevision
First round – Wednesday, March 2 – Campus Sites
15:00 pmW6 Bellarmine at E3 Stetson 53–81ESPN+
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 Liberty57–77ESPN+
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 State57–59ESPN+
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 Coast54-69ESPN+
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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022 ASUN Women's Basketball Championship.
  2. Web site: ASUN Conference. 2022-02-15. ASUN Conference. en.