2021–22 ASUN Conference Men's Basketball Season

The 2021–22 ASUN Conference men's basketball season started non-conference play on November 9, 2021, and began conference play on January 4, 2022. The regular season ended on February 26, 2022, followed by the 2022 ASUN men's basketball tournament held March 1–8, 2022.

The conference's regular season champions, the Jacksonville State Gamecocks, were awarded the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The conference tournament was won by the Bellarmine Knights, who were ineligible for the NCAA tournament due to their transitional status moving from NCAA Division II to NCAA Division I.

Conference changes

Due to the offseason additions of Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, and Jacksonville State, the ASUN changed the conference play format. The conference was split into East and West Divisions. The East includes Florida Gulf Coast, Jacksonville, Kennesaw State, Liberty, North Florida and Stetson, while the West features Bellarmine, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, Jacksonville State, Lipscomb and North Alabama. Conference play consists of 96 total games, with each team playing 16 games. Each team plays home-and-home against the other teams in its own division, and single games against teams from the other division evenly split between home and away games.

Head coaches

Coaching changes

Jacksonville hired Jordan Mincy after Tony Jasick was fired after going 11–13.

Coaches

''Notes:''

* Year at school includes 2021–22 season.
* Overall and ASUN records are from the time at current school and are through the end of the 2020–21 season.
* NCAA Tournament appearances are from the time at current school only, and refer solely to Division I. Before Ballarmine started its transition to Division I, Scott Davenport had led the Knights to 12 Division II tournament appearances.

Preseason Awards

The ASUN preseason men's basketball poll was released on October 20, 2021.

Preseason men's basketball polls

Coaches Poll

''First Place Votes in Parentheses''

# Liberty (9) - 141
# Eastern Kentucky (1) - 126
# Jacksonville State - 103
# Bellarmine (1) - 97
# Lipscomb - 89
# Florida Gulf Coast - 88
#North Florida (1) - 82
#Stetson - 67
#North Alabama - 49
#Jacksonville - 40
#Kennesaw State - 37
#Central Arkansas - 17

Media Poll

''First Place Votes in Parentheses''

# Liberty (30) - 276
# Eastern Kentucky (2) - 288
# Bellarmine / Lipscomb - 284
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# Jacksonville State - 240
# North Florida - 230
#Florida Gulf Coast - 200
#Stetson - 176
#North Alabama - 174
#Jacksonville - 94
#Central Arkansas - 80
#Kennesaw State - 0

Preseason Honors

''*unanimous selection''

Regular season

Conference standings

Conference Matrix

Players of the Week

Records against other conferences

Conference tournament

The 2022 ASUN Tournament was held at the higher seeded team's home court from March 1, 2022 to March 8, 2022.

References

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