The Atlantic Sun Conference are the first conference in college basketball to tip off conference tournament season on Monday night.
The first game between Jacksonville and Kennesaw State will begin at 7 p.m. ET. As will Queens North Carolina vs. Florida Gulf Coast.
The winner of this tournament will earn themselves a birth to March Madness. No other team is expected to make the tournament from this conference.
Eastern Kentucky — a projected No. 16 seed — is the favorite at +130 at BetMGM to make the tournament for the first time since 2014. Eastern Kentucky were, naturally, the regular season winners of the conference.
Lipscomb finished No. 2 in the overall Atlantic Sun standings and sit at +300 to dethrone Eastern Kentucky and book their trip to the dance.
And the third-best favorite Stetson finished No. 3 in the conference and sits with +425 odds to win the ASUN Tournament, according to BetMGM.
As you might have expected, the odds for the tournament fall neatly in line with how teams finished during the regular season — with one exception: Queens North Carolina and Kennesaw State are inverted.
Those two odds are inverted. While Kennesaw State finished conference play one game worse than Queens, their odds at 25-1 are precipitously better than Queens'. It stands to reason that their ranking in KenPom is substantially higher, too.
