2017 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament was the conference postseason tournament for the Atlantic Sun Conference. The tournament marked the 38th year the league conducted a postseason tournament. The tournament was held February 27, March 2 and 5, 2017 at campus sites as top seeds host each round. Florida Gulf Coast defeated North Florida, 77–61, in the championship game to receive the conference's automatic trip to the NCAA Tournament.
Seeds
Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker |
1 | Florida Gulf Coast | 12–2 | |
2 | Lipscomb | 11–3 | |
3 | North Florida | 8–6 | |
4 | USC Upstate | 7–7 | 1–1 vs. KSU, 1–1 vs. FGCU |
5 | Kennesaw State | 7–7 | 1–1 vs. USC Upstate, 0–2 vs. FGCU |
6 | Jacksonville | 5–9 | |
7 | NJIT | 3–11 | 1–1 vs. Stetson, identical records against all other teams, higher non-conference RPI |
8 | Stetson | 3–11 | 1–1 vs. NJIT, identical records against all other teams, lower non-conference RPI |