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The 2022 Big South tournament brackets are set. Here are the men’s, women’s schedules

This story will be updated as the Big South tournaments unfold. Check back here for the latest Big South and Winthrop basketball news.

Latest update: Monday, March 7.

The 2022 Big South tournaments saw history.

The end-of-year conference tournaments, played in Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, hosted their first-round games on Tuesday and Wednesday. The league’s quarterfinals happened on Thursday and Friday and its semis occurred Saturday.

The men’s conference championship game took place on Sunday at noon and aired on ESPN2, and the women’s conference championship game took place on Sunday at 8:30 p.m. and aired on ESPNU.

Here are the up-to-date schedules for the men’s and women’s tournaments.

Big South men’s tournament game schedule

Wednesday (first round)

#8 Radford vs. #9 North Carolina A&T at 11:30 a.m. (NC A&T won in overtime, 78-71.)

#5 UNC Asheville vs. #12 Charleston Southern at 2 p.m. (CSU won, 79-78.)

#7 High Point vs. #10 Hampton at 6 p.m. (High Point won in overtime, 84-77.)

#6 Campbell vs. #11 Presbyterian College at 8 p.m. (Campbell won in double-overtime, 75-72.)

Friday (second round)

#1 Longwood vs. #9 NC A&T winner at 12 p.m. (Longwood won in overtime, 79-65.)

#4 USC Upstate vs. #12 Charleston Southern at 2 p.m. (USC Upstate won, 72-62.)

#2 Winthrop vs. #7 High Point at 6 p.m. (Winthrop won, 68-51.)

#3 Gardner-Webb vs. #6 Campbell at 8 p.m. (Gardner-Webb won, 54-53.)

Saturday (semifinals)

#1 Longwood vs. #4 USC Upstate at 12 p.m. (Longwood won, 79-70.)

#2 Winthrop vs. #3 Gardner-Webb at 2 p.m. (Winthrop won, 76-67.)

Sunday (finals)

#1 Longwood vs. #2 Winthrop at 12 p.m. (on ESPN2). (Longwood won, 79-58.)

Winthrop’s Drew Buggs looks for an opening around Upstate’s Khydarius Smith (0).
Winthrop’s Drew Buggs looks for an opening around Upstate’s Khydarius Smith (0). Tracy Kimball tkimball@heraldonline.com

2022 Big South interactive bracket (men’s)

Check out The Herald’s interactive bracket embedded below. The tool is optimized for desktop use. If you’re reading this article on a mobile device, click here for a better view of the bracket.

Big South women’s tournament game schedule

Tuesday (first round)

#8 Presbyterian vs. #9 Winthrop at 12 p.m. (PC won, 65-60.)

#5 High Point vs. #12 Charleston Southern at 2 p.m. (High Point won, 54-34.)

#7 Hampton vs. #10 Radford at 6 p.m. (Hampton won, 55-49.)

#6 North Carolina A&T vs. #11 UNC Asheville at 8 p.m. (UNCA won, 68-59.)

Thursday (second round)

#1 Campbell vs. #8 Presbyterian College at 12 p.m. (Campbell won in overtime, 59-56.)

#4 Gardner-Webb vs. #5 High Point at 2 p.m. (Garder-Webb won, 55-53.)

#2 Longwood vs. #7 Hampton at 6 p.m. (Longwood won, 70-61.)

#3 USC Upstate vs. #11 UNC Asheville at 8 p.m. (UNC Asheville won, 62-57.)

Saturday (semifinals)

#1 Campbell vs. #4 Gardner-Webb at 6 p.m. (Campbell won, 51-50.)

#2 Longwood vs. #11 UNC Asheville at 8 p.m. (Longwood won, 81-56.)

Sunday (finals)

#1 Campbell vs. #2 Longwood at 8:30 p.m. (on ESPNU). (Longwood won, 86-47.)

This story was originally published February 26, 2022 at 8:25 PM with the headline "The 2022 Big South tournament brackets are set. Here are the men’s, women’s schedules."

Alex Zietlow
The Herald
Alex Zietlow writes about sports and the ways in which they intersect with life in York, Chester and Lancaster counties for The Herald, where he has been an editor and reporter since August 2019. Zietlow has won nine S.C. Press Association awards in his career, including First Place finishes in Feature Writing, Sports Enterprise Writing and Education Beat Reporting. He also received two Top-10 awards in the 2021 APSE writing contest and was nominated for the 2022 U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Rising Star award for his coverage of the Winthrop men’s basketball team.
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