It is looking like now the schedule will breakup:

#1 / #8 and #4 / #5 games for both the men and women will be on Wednesday and the #2/#7 and #3/#6 games will be on Thursday

If that is true then it is completely absurd, and the A-Sun has fell even lower in my book. It's bad enough that the tournaments have to be at school gyms, but this is a damned outrage!

First off, the A-Sun isn't the only conference to play their tournaments in the same gym. Second off, please enlighten all of us to why this is such an outrage?

Yes it would be nice to have all women on Thursday and all men on Friday, but it hardly as bad as you are making it out to be.

People may think you are funny and whatever, but your grasp on college athletics is terrible.

Who thinks he's funny Camel?

ETSU people (well it looks like it is just one of them)

Women's games first each day?

That I don't know, and this still could change.

Personally, if they are going to go with this format I would like to see the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds play on Wednesday, gives them the advantage of the day off on Thursday.

Why are we allowing 8 teams in it? There's barely 8 teams elligible. Give 1 and 2 bye's.

the Big Camel Wrote:That I don't know, and this still could change.

Personally, if they are going to go with this format I would like to see the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds play on Wednesday, gives them the advantage of the day off on Thursday.

Yeah, I was a little surprised to see the 4/5 winner will get Friday off.

(BC, Check your message box.)

Right now I guess the thinking is they don't want to "break up the bracket" by having the two teams who will meet in the semis playing on the same day.

Nick M Wrote:Why are we allowing 8 teams in it? There's barely 8 teams elligible. Give 1 and 2 bye's.

Personally, the more the better. I like the bigger tournaments and wish it would be a 12-teamer when we get to that point. But I can also see the other side of the argument.

top 2 seeds should get a bye. Why should the 4/5 winner be awareded.

1 ETSU 16 2
2 ^ Belmont 14 4
3 Jacksonville 11 7
4 Lipscomb 11 7
X Kennesaw State 9 9
5 Mercer 8 10
6 Campbell 7 11
7 Gardner-Webb 7 11
8 Stetson 6 12 .
X UNF 1 17

6-12 and 7-11 played in last years tournament. Got beat and went home. What is the point?

Campbel...

My grasp of college athletics is just fine, It is you and your little division II-esque A-sun pals that have never experienced college basketball...I realize there are some conferences that host tournaments at members home gyms and its inglorious as can be. The southern conference tried it one year at Chattanooga and the experience wasn't anywhere near the same. I don't expect you to understand these things. I realize as a Campbel fan you've never experienced a conference tournament where the schools and their fans invade a neutral town and literally take it over for a weekend. You don't have the advantage of having the glorious memories from Asheville and Charleston, such as I have. You've never gone into a restaurant and found yourself surrounded by an absolute sea of Marshall GREEN!

Frankly, you just sound Jealous because I can speak of glorious memories and you don't have anything that can come anywhere near matching it. So tell me again that I don't have good grasp of college athletics.

You know nothing about me, so please don't tell me what I have experienced in my past and what I haven't.

If you have to ask what's bad about dividing up a tournament...then yes I do

I never said I didn't think it was a bad idea, but it is not an outrage as you say. The conference is trying to find ways to increase the attendance for the tournament and I think that this will help.

Also, you really don't know me and don't know my past experiences in college athletics and what events that I have been to and what memories I have. I promise you though, that they are far superior to your SoCon Tournaments in Asheville and Charleston.

we're all oblivious to the D-I schools except the ASun because we're so new and young and helpless. Give me a break. What is on TV all the time? What is drilled down through national sports network sites? March Madness, the ASun wasn't even a footnote, no offense to Belmont. There's other example of great caliber schools and I can assure you, none of them even mention ETSU.

TV does compare to the weekend conference tournament experience. And in order to get that full experience....THERE HAS TO BE ACTUAL FANS WHO SUPPORT THE SCHOOLS THAT ARE IN THE CONFERENCE. You schools of the A-Sun are an embarrassment to civilization. There's probably a bigger following for **** fighters in Mexico.

Hey guess who else is in the A-Sun.......ETSU