2025 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament
Appearance
2025 Big South Conference men's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 2024–25 |
Teams | 9 |
Site | Freedom Hall Civic Center Johnson City, Tennessee |
Champions | High Point (1st title) |
Winning coach | Alan Huss (1st title) |
Television | ESPN+, ESPN2 |
Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
High Point † | 14 | – | 2 | .875 | 29 | – | 6 | .829 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UNC Asheville | 11 | – | 5 | .688 | 21 | – | 11 | .656 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Winthrop | 11 | – | 5 | .688 | 23 | – | 11 | .676 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Radford | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 20 | – | 13 | .606 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Presbyterian | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 14 | – | 19 | .424 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Longwood | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 18 | – | 14 | .563 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Charleston Southern | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 10 | – | 22 | .313 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gardner–Webb | 5 | – | 11 | .313 | 11 | – | 20 | .355 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USC Upstate | 2 | – | 14 | .125 | 6 | – | 26 | .188 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 2025 Big South tournament winner |
The 2025 Big South men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament that ended the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season of the Big South Conference.[1] It was held from March 5–9 and played at the Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, Tennessee.[2] The tournament winner, High Point, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA tournament.
Seeds
[edit]All of the conference teams will compete in the tournament. The top seven teams will receive a first-round bye. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, 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.
Seed | School | Conference | Overall | Tiebreaker |
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1 | High Point | 14–2 | 26–5 | |
2 | UNC Asheville | 11–5 | 20–10 | 1–1 vs. High Point |
3 | Winthrop | 11–5 | 21–10 | 0–2 vs. High Point |
4 | Radford | 9–7 | 19–12 | |
5 | Presbyterian | 7–9 | 14–17 | 2–0 vs. Longwood |
6 | Longwood | 7–9 | 18–13 | 0–2 vs. Presbyterian |
7 | Charleston Southern | 6–10 | 10–21 | |
8 | Gardner–Webb | 5–11 | 10–19 | |
9 | USC Upstate | 2–14 | 6–25 |
Schedule
[edit]Game | Time* | Matchup | Score | Channel |
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Opening round - Wednesday, March 5 | ||||
1 | 7:30 pm | No. 8 Gardner–Webb vs No. 9 USC Upstate | 83–63 | ESPN+ |
Quarterfinals - Friday March 7 | ||||
2 | 12:00 pm | No. 1 High Point vs No. 8 Gardner–Webb | 85–64 | ESPN+ |
3 | 2:30 pm | No. 4 Radford vs No. 5 Presbyterian | 74–69OT | |
4 | 6:00 pm | No. 2 UNC Asheville vs. No. 7 Charleston Southern | 80–60 | |
5 | 8:30 pm | No. 3 Winthrop vs No. 6 Longwood | 88–79 | |
Semifinals - Saturday, March 8 | ||||
6 | 12:00 pm | No. 1 High Point vs No. 4 Radford | 76–73 | ESPN+ |
7 | 2:30 pm | No. 2 UNC Asheville vs No. 3 Winthrop | 67–86 | |
Championship - Sunday, March 9 | ||||
8 | 12:00 pm | No. 1 High Point vs No. 3 Winthrop | 81–69 | ESPN2 |
*Game times in EST through the semifinals and EDT for the championship. |
Bracket
[edit]Opening round Wednesday, March 5 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals Friday, March 7 ESPN+ | Semifinals Saturday, March 8 ESPN+ | Championship Sunday, March 9 ESPN2 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | High Point | 85 | |||||||||||||||||
8 | Gardner–Webb | 64 | |||||||||||||||||
8 | Gardner–Webb | 83 | |||||||||||||||||
9 | USC Upstate | 63 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | High Point | 76 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Radford | 73 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Radford | 74OT | |||||||||||||||||
5 | Presbyterian | 69 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | High Point | 81 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Winthrop | 69 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | UNC Asheville | 80 | |||||||||||||||||
7 | Charleston Southern | 60 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | UNC Asheville | 67 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Winthrop | 86 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Winthrop | 88 | |||||||||||||||||
6 | Longwood | 79 |
References
[edit]- ^ "2025 Hercules Tires Big South Basketball Championships - Big South Conference". bigsouthsports.com. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
- ^ "Johnson City, Tennessee Selected as Host Site of 2025 and 2026 Basketball Championships". bigsouthsports.com. Retrieved December 24, 2024.