ASUN tournament
Posted: January 15th, 2021, 3:05 pm
Will be at Jacksonville and North Florida. Not great venues, but better than high seed host format.
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ASUN News Release wrote:ATLANTA, Ga. - The ASUN Conference announced format changes to the 2021 Men's and Women's Basketball Championships on Friday following unanimous approval of the ASUN Presidents' Council. Both championships will move to a single-site format, instead of being hosted at multiple campus venues, in the interest of student-athlete health and safety. In the new format, the Men's Championship will take place March 3-7 in Jacksonville, Fla., while the Women's Championship heads to Kennesaw, Ga., from March 10-14.Click Here for Full News Release
All nine league teams will qualify for the championships with the No. 8 vs. No. 9 seeds facing off on Wednesday (March 3, Men | March 10, Women). Four quarterfinal contests will be conducted on Thursday (March 4, Men | March 11, Women) with Semifinal games on Friday (March 5, Men | March 12, Women). Following an off day on Saturday, the Championship Final tips off on Sunday (March 7, Men | March 14, Women). A complete bracket with game times will be released at a later date.
ballcoach15 wrote: ↑January 15th, 2021, 3:05 pm Will be at Jacksonville and North Florida. Not great venues, but better than high seed host format.I'm going to hold off til I have confirmation from a more reliable source before buying that they will be using 2 venues. No real reason to do so, and setting up for 2 would be more work and more personnel to man it. Women are in Kennesaw at one site.
The ASUN Conference is moving its men’s basketball tournament March 3-7 to Jacksonville, with games to be played at the on-campus arenas at the University of North Florida and Jacksonville University.
flamehunter wrote: ↑January 16th, 2021, 10:06 pm https://www.jacksonville.com/story/spor ... 176651001/A saying about blind squirrels and acorns comes to mind.
Ballcoach has this one right.
The ASUN Conference is moving its men’s basketball tournament March 3-7 to Jacksonville, with games to be played at the on-campus arenas at the University of North Florida and Jacksonville University.
BuryYourDuke wrote: ↑January 31st, 2021, 8:24 am I’m not a rules expert, but if memory serves me correctly, should a non-eligible team win the tournament the conference forfeits their auto-bid.I'm not either, but I'm pretty sure that is not the case. Regardless of how you may feel overall about the intelligence of the ASUN administration, I don't think they are stupid enough to put the conference's auto-bid at risk in that way. I'm hoping they are also smart enough to realize that even if it does not mean forfeiting the bid, the participation of these teams is probably not worth the potential problems it could cause.
olldflame wrote: ↑January 31st, 2021, 8:21 am The ASUN's "elephant in the room". 2 teams who are not eligible for the NCAA tournament are in a 3 way tie for first place. As things stand currently they will however both participate in the conference tournament, where they would be highly seeded. If one of them were to win the tournament, theoretically, the loser of the championship would represent the conference in the dance but ............................ what if they both make the final? As far as I know, there has been no announcement as to what would happen in that situation. IMHO, the best option would be to have the semifinal losers play for 3rd place and the conference bid. Does ESPN broadcast that game, or the meaningless final? I really think they need to reconsider things....or we could simply take care of business. We've been hampered by odd breaks in the schedule and I really think Ritchie's energy level has been impacted from his run-in with Covid. I hope we come back playing well, but I wouldn't be surprised to see if we have to wait until next year to see this team play a complete game night in and night out..
rogers3 wrote: ↑February 10th, 2021, 1:47 pmOf course, I would love to see us make it a moot point with a dominating performance in Jacksonville, but the scenario I described has nothing to do with our team. I have no reason to believe they will not bring their best effort to the table. The ASUN has brought in 2 new teams with strong histories as D2 powerhouses, and both have made a rapid adjustment to be highly competitive in the conference. This is a good thing overall, but to allow them to compete in the post season tournament when they are not eligible for the bid is asking for trouble, and it is totally unnecessary. The conference even has the perfect excuse with Covid. They can just say it would unnecessarily increase the risk to everyone to inject teams that are not eligible into the tournament environment.olldflame wrote: ↑January 31st, 2021, 8:21 am The ASUN's "elephant in the room". 2 teams who are not eligible for the NCAA tournament are in a 3 way tie for first place. As things stand currently they will however both participate in the conference tournament, where they would be highly seeded. If one of them were to win the tournament, theoretically, the loser of the championship would represent the conference in the dance but ............................ what if they both make the final? As far as I know, there has been no announcement as to what would happen in that situation. IMHO, the best option would be to have the semifinal losers play for 3rd place and the conference bid. Does ESPN broadcast that game, or the meaningless final? I really think they need to reconsider things....or we could simply take care of business. We've been hampered by odd breaks in the schedule and I really think Ritchie's energy level has been impacted from his run-in with Covid. I hope we come back playing well, but I wouldn't be surprised to see if we have to wait until next year to see this team play a complete game night in and night out..
LU Grad 11 wrote: ↑February 10th, 2021, 10:55 pm Don't whine; just win. Need to get the confidence and unselfishness back that we had at the beginning of the season. Planning on making the trek to Jacksonville for the tournament. Hopefully, there will be enough tickets available. Go Flames! #lightemupI fail to see any selfishness or lack of confidence in this team. Conference wins on the road are hard to come by, which is why as fans, we have every right to point out the inequities in our having to play more than our share of road games. If our team and coaches were "whining", that would be counterproductive. They are not.
prototype wrote: ↑February 18th, 2021, 10:57 am why in the world didn't the ASUN even try to reschedule the games we missed? We missed playing the easier teams and now we are getting penalized for it.It's impossible to know if they "tried". We actually only missed the 2 games against FGCU, which looks to be a mid-pack team (although it's hard to tell with how few games they have played.) The inequity is not so much there as it is in who we had to play on the road as opposed to at home.