The 2022 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big South Conference for the 2021–22 season. It was held from March 2–6, 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 was held at a single neutral site location. The tournament winner, Longwood, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The defending champions were the Winthrop Eagles. Winthrop lost in the finals to Longwood, ensuring the Lancers their first NCAA tournament appearance.
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, 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:
Head-to-head record. 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.
UNC Asheville got a higher seeding than Campbell due to the head-to-head record. High Point got a higher seeding than Radford got a better top-to-bottom record through High Point's win against Winthrop.
SeedSchoolConferenceNET ranking(March 2, 2021)1Longwood151143rd2Winthrop142145th3Gardner–Webb115163rd4USC Upstate106271st5UNC Asheville222nd6Campbell223rd7High Point255th8Radford288th9North Carolina A&T610290th10Hampton511321st11Presbyterian412270th12Charleston Southern115351st
Schedule GameTime*MatchupScoreChannelFirst round - Wednesday, March 2Bojangles ColiseumCharlotte, NC111:30 am#8 Radford vs. #9 North Carolina A&T71–78ESPN+22:00 pm#5 UNC Asheville vs. #12 Charleston Southern 78–7936:00 pm#7 High Point vs. #10 Hampton 84–7748:00 pm#6 Campbell vs. #11 Presbyterian 75–72Quarterfinals - Friday, March 4Bojangles Coliseum512:00 pm#1 Longwood vs. #9 North Carolina A&T79–65ESPN+62:00 pm#4 USC Upstate vs.#12 Charleston Southern72–6276:00 pm#2 Winthrop vs. #7 High Point68–5188:00 pm#3 Gardner–Webb vs. #6 Campbell54–53Semifinals - Saturday, March 5Bojangles Coliseum912:00 pm#1 Longwood vs. #4 USC Upstate79–70ESPN+102:00 pm#2 Winthrop vs. #3 Gardner-Webb76–67Championship - Sunday, March 6Bojangles Coliseum1112:00 pm#1 Longwood vs. #2 Winthrop79–58ESPN2*Game times in ET
Bracket * denotes overtime period
Game summaries
First round
References