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(SoCon) for the 2021–22 season. All tournament games were played at the Harrah's Cherokee Center in

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, during March 4–7, 2022. The winner of the tournament received the conference's automatic bid to the

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. In the championship game, David Jean-Baptiste scored a buzzer-beating

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to give

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a 64–63 overtime win over Furman. It was Chattanooga's first SoCon men's basketball title since 2016.

Seeds

All ten teams in the Southern Conference were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Tiebreakers used are 1) head-to-head results, 2) comparison of records against individual teams in the conference starting with the top-ranked team and working down and 3) NCAA NET rankings on the first available report after the regular season is complete. Samford was seeded over Wofford due to having a better record against conference top seed

. VMI was seeded over UNC Greensboro due to having a better record against Mercer. The top six teams received first-round byes.

Schedule and results

Bracket

References

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Seeds

Schedule and results

Bracket

See also

References