2024 ASUN men's basketball tournament explained

Year:2024
Conference:ASUN
Division:I
Gender:Men's
Teams:10
Arena:Campus sites
Champions:Stetson
Titlecount:1st
Coach:Donnie Jones
Coachcount:1st
Topscorerteam:Points=
Television:ESPN+, ESPN2

The 2024 Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament was the conference postseason tournament for the Atlantic Sun Conference. The tournament was the 45th year the league has conducted a postseason tournament. The tournament was held March 4–10 at campus sites of the higher seeds. The winner, Stetson, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Tournament. It was their first ever ASUN championship and NCAA tournament appearance for the Hatters.

Seeds

Ten teams contested the bracket. All rounds reseeded instead of a traditional set bracket; to that end, the 9 and 10 seeds play each other in round 1, and the 7 and 8 seeds do as well, rather than the traditional 7/10 and 8/9 matchup.[1]

The two tiebreakers used by the Atlantic Sun are 1) head-to-head records of teams with identical records and 2) NCAA NET rankings available on day following the conclusion of ASUN regular season play.

SeedSchoolConferenceHead-to-HeadNET ranking[2]
1Eastern Kentucky12–4205
2Stetson11–51–0 vs. Lipscomb217
3Lipscomb11–50–1 vs. Stetson159
4Austin Peay10–6219
5North Florida9–7251
6North Alabama8–81–0 vs. Florida Gulf Coast258
7Florida Gulf Coast8–80–1 vs. North Alabama241
8Queens7–9269
9Kennesaw State6–10257
10Jacksonville5–111–0 vs. Central Arkansas284
DNQCentral Arkansas5–110–1 vs. Jacksonville343
DNQBellarmine4–12318

Schedule

GameTime [3] Matchup[4] ScoreTelevision
First round – Monday, March 4 – Campus Sites
17:00 pmNo. 10 Jacksonville vs No. 9 Kennesaw State92–86ESPN+
27:00 pmNo. 8 Queens vs No. 7 Florida Gulf Coast69–63
Quarterfinals – Tuesday, March 5 – Campus Sites
37:00 pmNo. 10 Jacksonville at No. 1 Eastern Kentucky67–65ESPN+
48:00 pmNo. 5 North Florida at No. 4 Austin Peay98–101
57:00 pmNo. 8 Queens at No. 2 Stetson83–91
68:00 pmNo. 6 North Alabama at No. 3 Lipscomb77–75
Semifinals – Thursday, March 7 – Campus Sites
77:00 pmNo. 10 Jacksonville at No. 2 Stetson87–88ESPN+
88:00 pmNo. 6 North Alabama at No. 4 Austin Peay71–77
Championship – Sunday, March 10 – Campus Sites
92:00 pmNo. 4 Austin Peay at No. 2 Stetson91–94ESPN2
Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

Game summaries

First round

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MBB Bracket - 2024 (PDF) - Atlantic Sun Conference . 2023-11-25 . asunsports.org . en.
  2. Web site: NCAA Men's Basketball NET Rankings through Games Mar. 01 2024. NCAA.com. March 2, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240302175319/https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings. March 2, 2024.
  3. Web site: 2023 Sun Belt Men's Basketball Championship .
  4. Web site: 2024 ASUN Men's Basketball Championship - Atlantic Sun Conference . 2023-11-25 . asunsports.org . en.