2022 Big South Conference women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2022
Conference:Big South Conference
Gender:Women's
Teams:12
Television:ESPN+, ESPNU
Arena:Bojangles Coliseum
Charlotte, North Carolina

The 2022 Big South Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Big South Conference for the 2021–22 season. It was held from March 1–6, 2022 with all tournament games played at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina. This was the first time since the 2016 edition that the tournament has been held at a single neutral site location. The tournament winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The defending champions are the High Point Panthers.

Seeds

With the addition of North Carolina A&T before the season, the conference increased its membership to 12 teams and split into divisions for the first time since 2013–14. The division winners were awarded the top two seeds,[1] with the rest of the teams being seeded by record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

The tiebreakers operate in the following order:[2]

  1. Head-to-head record.
  2. Record against the top-ranked conference team not involved in the tie, going down the standings until the tie is broken. For this purpose, teams with the same conference record are considered collectively. If two teams were unbeaten or winless against an opponent but did not play the same number of games against that opponent, the tie is not considered broken.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker
1Campbell1532–0 vs. Longwood
2Longwood1530–2 vs. Campbell
3USC Upstate144
4Gardner–Webb1352–0 vs. High Point
5High Point1350–2 vs. Gardner-Webb
6North Carolina A&T117
7Hampton89
8Presbyterian612
9Winthrop414
10Radford3151–1 vs. Winthrop
11UNC Asheville3150–1 vs. Winthrop
12Charleston Southern215

Schedule

GameTime*MatchupScoreChannel
First round - Tuesday, March 1
Bojangles Coliseum
Charlotte, NC
1Noon
  1. 8 Presbyterian vs. #9 Winthrop
65–60ESPN+
22:00 pm
  1. 5 High Point vs. #12 Charleston Southern
54–34
36:00 pm
  1. 7 Hampton vs. #10 Radford
55–49
48:00 pm
  1. 11 UNC Asheville vs. #6 North Carolina A&T
68–59
Quarterfinals - Thursday, March 3
Bojangles Coliseum
512:00 pm
  1. 1 Campbell vs. #8 Presbyterian
59–56ESPN+
62:00 pm
  1. 4 Gardner-Webb vs. #5 High Point
55–53
76:00 pm
  1. 2 Longwood vs. #7 Hampton
70–61
88:00 pm
  1. 3 USC Upstate vs. #11 UNC Asheville
57–62
Semifinals - Saturday, March 5
Bojangles Coliseum
96:00 pm
  1. 1 Campbell vs. #4 Gardner-Webb
51–50ESPN+
108:00 pm
  1. 2 Longwood vs. #11 UNC Asheville
81–56
Championship - Sunday, March 6
Bojangles Coliseum
116:00 pm
  1. 1 Campbell vs. #2 Longwood
47–86ESPNU
  • Game times in ET

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022 Hercules Tires Men's Basketball Championship (PDF) - Big South Conference. 2022-02-20. bigsouthsports.com. en.
  2. Web site: Basketball Tiebreaker Policy. 2022-02-20. bigsouthsports.com. en.