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| Formerly | Trans America Athletic Conference (1978–2001) Atlantic Sun Conference (2001–2016) ASUN Conference (2016–2023) |
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| Association | NCAA |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Commissioner | Jeff Bacon (since 2023) |
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| Division | Division I |
| No. of teams | 12 (7 in 2026) |
| Headquarters | Jacksonville, Florida |
| Region | Southern United States |
| Broadcaster | ESPN |
| Official website | asunsports |
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TheAtlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) is a collegiateathletic conference operating mostly in theSoutheastern United States, competing at theNCAA Division I level. Originally established as theTrans America Athletic Conference (TAAC) in 1978,[1] it was renamed as the Atlantic Sun Conference in 2001, and briefly rebranded as the ASUN Conference from 2016 to 2023. The conference still uses "ASUN" as an official abbreviation.[2] The conference headquarters are located inJacksonville.
– Full member
– Departing member
– Affiliate memberThe conference was first formed on September 19, 1978, as theTrans America Athletic Conference, at theDallas–Fort Worth Regional Airport Marina Hotel.[3] Its charter members wereOklahoma City University, Pan American University (later renamedUniversity of Texas-Pan American), Northeast Louisiana University (now known as theUniversity of Louisiana at Monroe), Houston Baptist University (nowHouston Christian University),Hardin-Simmons University,Centenary College of Louisiana,Samford University, andMercer University, all of whom were previously D-I independents. None of the eight charter members remain in the conference today.
Almost immediately after its formation, the conference experienced a shake-up in its membership. Oklahoma City departed to become a charter member of the Midwestern City Conference (known today as theHorizon League), while UTPA returned to D-I independent status—both had only played a single season in the infant league. The TAAC was quick to replace the outgoing members withNorthwestern State University and theUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock, along withGeorgia Southern University in 1980, but this instability would prove to be a trend through the coming years—over the next 20 years, the conference would accept 16 new members, with many of these leaving after only playing a handful of seasons. 1982 saw the departure of another charter member, Northeast Louisiana, to theSouthland Conference. Additionally, it saw the arrival ofNicholls State University, who originally planned to join the TAAC as a full member. However, due to an oversight by the NCAA, adding in a new program who had not competed in Division I for at least five years would result in the offending conference forfeiting their automatic bid to theNCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. To get around this, the TAAC announced that Nicholls State would compete as a provisional member, ineligible for the men's basketball tournament until it completed its D-I transition in 1985.[4] However, it, along with Northwestern State, left the conference in 1984 to join theGulf Star Conference instead.
The remainder of the 1980s saw mostly growth for the conference, addingGeorgia State University in 1983,Stetson University in 1985, and theUniversity of Texas at San Antonio in 1986. However, near the end of the decade, the conference was hit with 5 departures over 4 consecutive years, beginning with Houston Baptist transitioning to theNAIA in 1989. This was followed by Hardin-Simmons dropping toNCAA Division III in 1990, UTSA and Arkansas–Little Rock leaving for the Southland andSun Belt conferences in 1991, respectively, and Georgia Southern leaving for theSouthern Conference in 1992. In the midst of this, the conference began to relentlessly pursue expansion throughout the 1990s to offset these losses, addingFlorida International University in 1990,Southeastern Louisiana University and theCollege of Charleston in 1991, theUniversity of Central Florida in 1992,Florida Atlantic University in 1993,Campbell University in 1994,Jacksonville State University in 1995,Troy State University in 1997, andJacksonville University in 1998. Of these 9 schools, though, only 2 ended up staying with the conference for longer than 15 years.
The turn of the millennium saw another charter member in Centenary depart in 1999 for the Mid-Continent Conference (now theSummit League); the league was able to offset this with the addition ofBelmont University in 2001. Around this same time, the conference sought to rebrand itself, changing its name from the Trans America Athletic Conference to theAtlantic Sun Conference. The newly rebranded A-Sun continued to expand into the 2000s, addingGardner–Webb University in 2002,Lipscomb University in 2003,East Tennessee State University,Kennesaw State University, and theUniversity of North Florida in 2005, andFlorida Gulf Coast University & theUniversity of South Carolina Upstate in 2007. It also lost its fair share of members as well—largely some of the aforementioned members that had been added during the '90s, such as FIU, Florida Atlantic, and Troy to the Sun Belt, Georgia State to theColonial Athletic Association, and UCF toConference USA, but it also saw the departure of Samford to theOhio Valley Conference, leaving Mercer as the only remaining charter member.
The start of the 2010s gave the A-Sun a bit of a reprieve from conference realignment, losing only Campbell and Belmont in 2011 and 2012 to the Big South and OVC, respectively, and only adding recent D-I upgraderNorthern Kentucky University in 2012. 2014 saw the departure of its final charter member, Mercer, to the Southern Conference in 2014; however, the Bears continued to compete in the ASUN as an affiliate for beach volleyball and added men's lacrosse to its ASUN membership in 2022. The ASUN continued to expand and contract slowly through the mid-2010s, losing only Northern Kentucky and East Tennessee State (along with Mercer), and only adding theNew Jersey Institute of Technology in 2015.
This slow pace didn't stay for long, however. The second half of the decade saw the conference rebranding a second time, to simply theASUN Conference[2] Two years later, theUniversity of North Alabama arrived from theDivision IIGulf South Conference,[5] andLiberty University left the Big South for the ASUN.[6] More recently,Bellarmine University joined from the Division IIGreat Lakes Valley Conference[7] and NJIT left for theAmerica East Conference in 2020–21.[8] On July 1, 2024, theUniversity of West Georgia joined from the Division II Gulf South Conference.[9]
On January 22, 2020, it was announced that theCoastal Collegiate Sports Association and the ASUN would merge to create a new Division I multisport conference.[10] The timeline below was released with the announcement of this merger and expansion plan:
The ASUN had planned on expanding to 20 members and then splitting the conference similar to how theOriginal Big East Conference was split in 2013 into theAmerican Athletic Conference and theNew Big East Conference. The new ASUN Conference governed by the CCSA would have made up of the ASUN 7 including all of the members that would have been in the ASUN Conference for at least 8 years to meet the requirements for a new multisport conference. The members would have includedFlorida Gulf Coast University,Jacksonville University,Kennesaw State University,Lipscomb University,New Jersey Institute of Technology,University of North Florida, andStetson University. The United Athletic Conference (not to be confused with theUnited Athletic Conference, the football merger between theWestern Athletic Conference and the ASUN in 2023) governed by the original ASUN Conference would have includedBellarmine University,Liberty University,University of North Alabama, and ten other undisclosed schools that would have joined through expansion.
On November 16, 2020, The ASUN Conference announced that, due to theCOVID-19 pandemic and the quickly changing landscape in conference realignment, the creation of a new multisport conference would not be possible at the time of the release or with the aforementioned timeline.[11] This comes after the news that NJIT would be leaving the ASUN for theAmerica East Conference in 2021, weakening the ASUN 7 and lowering the chances that a new conference would be created with only six members.
Arguably its biggest move in recent years was the announcement that the conference would be adding theUniversity of Central Arkansas,Eastern Kentucky University, and former memberJacksonville State University, as incoming members on January 29, 2021, with the intent of sponsoring football in theFootball Championship Subdivision (FCS) in 2022.[12] With these three schools joining in 2021, the league partnered with another conference beginning to sponsor football, theWestern Athletic Conference (WAC), which likewise did not have the minimum of six football-playing members needed for the conference to have an automatic qualifier to the FCS playoffs. The resulting combination of three ASUN and four WAC schools was branded interchangeably as the "ASUN–WAC Challenge" and "WAC–ASUN Challenge," and also referred to as the "AQ7."[13][14]
The ASUN football league project was thrown into jeopardy as early as November 2021, as Jacksonville State announced it would be leaving once again in 2023 forConference USA (C-USA), an FBS conference. Liberty was also invited to C-USA for 2023, but had already competed as an FBS independent for some time and was not included in the ASUN's new football league.[15] With the WAC also losingSam Houston, another football-sponsoring school, to C-USA, the two conferences announced they would be renewing their alliance for the 2022 season.[16] On September 17, 2021, the ASUN announcedAustin Peay State University, a football-sponsoring school, as a new member for the 2022–23 season.[17] In May 2022, local media inCharlotte, North Carolina, also reported thatQueens University of Charlotte would start a transition from the Division IISouth Atlantic Conference as a new ASUN member, also effective on July 1 of that year.[18] The ASUN officially announced this move on May 10.[19]
The ASUN also expanded its associate membership in the 2020s. The conference started the decade with five associate members—Coastal Carolina in both beach volleyball and women's lacrosse, Mercer in beach volleyball only, and Akron, Kent State, and Howard in women's lacrosse. All of the women's lacrosse associates left by the 2021–22 school year. Akron and Kent State left after the 2020 season when their full-time home of theMid-American Conference began sponsoring the sport. Coastal Carolina also left after the 2020 season for the SoCon. Howard moved several sports not sponsored by its full-time home of theMid-Eastern Athletic Conference to theNortheast Conference, with women's lacrosse moving after the 2021 season. Coastal Carolina moved beach volleyball to C-USA after the 2020–21 school year.
However, the 2021–22 school year saw the arrival of eight new associates, as well as the return of former women's lacrosse associates Coastal Carolina and Delaware State for that sport. ASUN beach volleyball added Charleston, Stephen F. Austin, and UNC Wilmington. The largest change in associate membership involved the relaunch of ASUN men's lacrosse. Full member Bellarmine was joined by five new associates—Air Force, Cleveland State, Detroit Mercy, Robert Morris, and Utah.
The ASUN lost five beach volleyball members for 2022–23. The conference's four associates in that sport left for theSun Belt Conference (SBC), which added that sport. Charleston, Stephen F. Austin, and UNC Wilmington all left the ASUN after a single season and Mercer also moved beach volleyball to the SBC.[20] Also, departing full member Jacksonville State moved beach volleyball to its future home of C-USA a year before its all-sports move to that league.[21]
Also for 2022–23, Mercer moved men's lacrosse into the ASUN after the SoCon shut down its men's lacrosse league, and new D-I member Lindenwood became an associate in both men's and women's lacrosse.
On October 14, 2022, Conference USA and Kennesaw State jointly announced that KSU would start a transition to FBS after the 2022 football season[22] and join C-USA in 2024.[23]
ESPN reported on December 9, 2022, that the ASUN and WAC had agreed to form a new football-only conference that plans to start play in 2024. The initial membership would consist of Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, and North Alabama from the ASUN, andAbilene Christian,Southern Utah,Stephen F. Austin,Tarleton, andUtah Tech from the WAC. The new football conference also reportedly planned to move "from what is currently known as FCS football to what is currently known as FBS football at the earliest practicable date."[24] On December 20, the two conferences confirmed the football merger, announcing that the new football league would start play in 2023 under the tentative name of ASUN–WAC Football Conference. This was followed in April 2023 by the new league rebranding itself as theUnited Athletic Conference (UAC). The UAC played a six-game schedule in 2023 and planned to start full round-robin conference play in 2024. Neither conference's official announcement mentioned any plans to move to FBS.[25][26][27]
On September 1, 2023, it was announced that the ASUN would undergo another rebranding to reinstate the use of the name Atlantic Sun. The conference still uses "ASUN" as its official abbreviation.
The ASUN added men's and women's swimming & diving for the 2023–24 season, taking most of its initial membership from theCoastal Collegiate Sports Association, which had been founded as a partnership of several all-sports conferences, including the ASUN, as a home for that sport (the CCSA's scope would later expand to include beach volleyball). Two associate members came from theAmerican Athletic Conference, which dropped men's swimming as a sponsored sport after the 2022–23 season. The initial membership for that sport was:[28]
In response to the WAC losing most of its members during the first half of 2025, the ASUN and WAC issued a joint statement on June 26, 2025, announcing that the United Athletic Conference would become an all-sports conference as of July 1, 2026. The all-sports UAC would include the three remaining WAC institutions (Abilene Christian University,Tarleton State University, and non-footballUniversity of Texas Arlington) plus the five football-playing ASUN members (Austin Peay State University,University of Central Arkansas,Eastern Kentucky University,University of North Alabama, andUniversity of West Georgia). The seven remaining ASUN members would continue to operate after July 1, 2026, as a non-football conference under the Atlantic Sun name. The statement framed the demise of the WAC and redistribution of conference members as a "strategic alliance" of the WAC with the ASUN, under which the WAC would "rebrand" as the UAC. The "rebranding" tactic enabled the new all-sports UAC to inherit the WAC's automatic qualifiers to NCAA championships, avoiding the customary waiting period for a new conference. Plans called for the ASUN and the UAC to operate as a "consortium" under ASUN commissioner Jeff Bacon.[29][30]
Members departing for theUnited Athletic Conference on July 1, 2026.
| Institution | Location | Founded | Type | Enrollment | Joining | Nickname | Primary conference | ASUN sport(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Little Rock) | Little Rock, Arkansas | 1927 | Public | 13,167 | 2026–27 | Trojans | OVC (UAC in 2026) | Women's swimming & diving |
School names and nicknames listed here reflect those used during the schools' time in the TAAC/ASUN. One school has changed both its name and nickname and three others have changed only their nicknames.
Five former full members are now associates, and a sixth will become an associate in 2025.
Full members Full members (non-football) Assoc. members (football only) Assoc. members (other sports) Other conference Other conference
As of the 2023–24 school year, the ASUN sponsors championship competition in 10 men's and 12 women's NCAA sanctioned sports.[42]
In 2008, the ASUN, in an agreement with the Southern Conference (SoCon), Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), and Big South Conference, formed the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) for schools sponsoring men's and women's swimming and diving within the associated conferences. For the past several years, the ASUN's Commissioner has served as the president of what was initially a swimming & diving-only conference. In 2014 the CCSA expanded to include several other schools from other conferences, and the following year the conference added beach volleyball (women-only at the NCAA level) as a sponsored sport, changing its name to theCoastal Collegiate Sports Association. Currently the conference has 17 member schools, with five men's swimming and diving teams, nine women's swimming & diving teams, and six beach volleyball teams.[43]
A more recent change to the roster of ASUN sports took place after the 2013–14 school year. Under a cooperative agreement between the ASUN and SoCon, the two leagues agreed to split lacrosse sponsorship. The SoCon took over the ASUN men's lacrosse league, while women's lacrosse sponsorship remained with the ASUN.[44] The full alliance in women's lacrosse amicably ended after the 2017 season, with the SoCon sponsoring that sport from the 2018 season forward, but the two leagues continued in a cross-scheduling agreement until the SoCon dropped women's lacrosse after the 2021 season.
Still more recently, on September 13, 2016, the ASUN and Big South announced a football partnership that allows any ASUN members with scholarship football programs to become Big South football members, provided they are located within the general geographic footprint of the two conferences. At the time of announcement, the only ASUN member with a scholarship football program, Kennesaw State, was already a Big South football member. Should any ASUN member add scholarship football, or any non-scholarship football program of an ASUN school (at the time of announcement, Jacksonville and Stetson) upgrade to scholarship football, that team will automatically join Big South football.[45] North Alabama joined Big South football under the terms of this agreement; although the school's home state of Alabama had no schools in either conference at the time it was announced as a future ASUN member, three of its neighboring states were home to six of the ASUN's eight members at that time.
When the ASUN announced the July 2021 entry of Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, and Jacksonville State, it also stated that it would launch a scholarship FCS football league, but did not specify when football competition will begin.[12] No current member is required to add football or change its current football standing.[46] At a press conference on February 23, 2021, the ASUN announced that it had entered into a separate football partnership with theWestern Athletic Conference (WAC), which had previously announced the relaunch ofits football league at the FCS level in fall 2021 with the arrival of four new FCS member schools. The three incoming ASUN members joined the four incoming WAC members in a round-robin schedule branded as the "ASUN–WAC Challenge". Both conferences proposed an amendment to NCAA bylaws that would allow the alliance to receive an automatic bid to the FCS playoffs. The alliance had seven members, one more than the six normally required for an automatic bid, but were not in the same league for an adequate period to meet the current NCAA "continuity" requirement.[47][14] The two leagues' proposal was successful, resulting in an automatic qualifier from the seven-team Challenge, colloquially dubbed "AQ7".[48] With the 2022 arrival of Austin Peay providing the ASUN its sixth scholarship FCS program, the ASUN will start its football league in the 2022 season. However, because the ASUN and WAC were each left with only five playoff-eligible football members for 2022 after Jacksonville State (ASUN) and Sam Houston (WAC) started FBS transitions in that season, both leagues renewed their football partnership for 2022.[16] As noted earlier, the two conferences fully merged their football leagues in 2023 as the United Athletic Conference.
Shortly after the addition of football was announced, the ASUN announced that it would reinstate men's lacrosse in the 2022 season, with the lacrosse partnership with the SoCon retained for the time being. The two full ASUN members with men's lacrosse programs, Bellarmine and Jacksonville, separated for that sport, with Bellarmine joining the new ASUN lacrosse league and Jacksonville remaining in SoCon men's lacrosse. Air Force moved from SoCon men's lacrosse; men's lacrosse independent Utah joined; and all threeHorizon League members with men's lacrosse programs also joined, with Detroit Mercy moving from theMetro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Cleveland State and Robert Morris moving from independent status. The SoCon maintained its automatic NCAA tournament berth by adding another lacrosse independent, Hampton. The ASUN men's lacrosse league was initially to be administered through the CCSA while operating under the ASUN name as part of the ASUN's intended plan to split into two conferences.[49][50] This arrangement was scrapped along with the planned conference split once NJIT left for the America East; the men's lacrosse league is now directly administered by the ASUN.
The ASUN added two new beach volleyball members, Charleston and UNCW, in July 2021.[39] At the same time, Coastal Carolina left ASUN beach volleyball for the newly formedConference USA beach volleyball league.[51] With the demise of SoCon women's lacrosse after the 2021 season, Coastal Carolina and Delaware State returned to the ASUN in that sport after respectively spending one and four seasons in the SoCon.[32]
The SoCon dropped men's lacrosse after the 2022 season due to further conference realignment. Jacksonville returned men's lacrosse to the ASUN, and full SoCon member Mercer became an ASUN men's lacrosse affiliate. Lindenwood, which started a transition from D-II to D-I in 2022 as a new member of theOhio Valley Conference, became an affiliate in both men's and women's lacrosse (neither of which is sponsored by the OVC). Also in 2022–23, the ASUN lost all four of its beach volleyball affiliates (Charleston, Mercer, Stephen F. Austin, UNCW) to the new beach volleyball league of theSun Belt Conference.
As noted previously, the ASUN added men's and women's swimming & diving in 2023–24.
| Sport | Men's | Women's |
|---|---|---|
| Baseball | 12 | – |
| Basketball | 12 | 12 |
| Beach volleyball | – | 8 |
| Cross country | 12 | 12 |
| Golf | 12 | 12 |
| Lacrosse | 6 | 9 |
| Soccer | 8 | 12 |
| Softball | – | 12 |
| Swimming &diving | 6 | 9 |
| Tennis | 9 | 10 |
| Track and field (indoor) | 7 | 9 |
| Track and field (outdoor) | 7 | 9 |
| Volleyball | – | 12 |
| School | Baseball | Basketball | Cross country | Golf | Lacrosse | Soccer | Swimming &diving | Tennis | Track & field (indoor) | Track & field (outdoor) | Total sports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Peay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 5 |
| Bellarmine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 10 |
| Central Arkansas | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | 7 |
| Eastern Kentucky | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | 6 |
| Florida Gulf Coast | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | 6 |
| Jacksonville | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | 6 |
| Lipscomb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8 |
| North Alabama | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 5 |
| North Florida | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8 |
| Queens | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 10 |
| Stetson | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | 6 |
| West Georgia | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | 8 |
| Associate members | |||||||||||
| Air Force | Yes | 1 | |||||||||
| Delaware | Yes | 1 | |||||||||
| Florida Atlantic | Yes | 1 | |||||||||
| Gardner–Webb | Yes | 1 | |||||||||
| Mercer | Yes | 1 | |||||||||
| Old Dominion | Yes | 1 | |||||||||
| Utah | Yes | 1 | |||||||||
| Totals | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 3+3 | 8 | 2+4 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 83+7 |
Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the league which are played by ASUN schools:
| School | Football | Rowing | Volleyball | Wrestling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Peay | UAC | No | No | No |
| Bellarmine | No[a] | No | No | SoCon |
| Central Arkansas | UAC | No | No | No |
| Eastern Kentucky | UAC | No | No | No |
| Jacksonville | No | MAAC | No | No |
| North Alabama | UAC | No | No | No |
| Queens | No | No | MIVA[52] | No |
| Stetson | Pioneer | MAAC | No | No |
| West Georgia | UAC | No | No | No |
In addition to the aforementioned sports:
| School | Basketball | Beach volleyball | Cross country | Golf | Lacrosse | Soccer | Softball | Swimming &diving | Tennis | Track & field (indoor) | Track & field (outdoor) | Volleyball | Total Sports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Peay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 11 |
| Bellarmine | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 10 |
| Central Arkansas | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9 |
| Eastern Kentucky | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9 |
| Florida Gulf Coast | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | 9 |
| Jacksonville | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 10 |
| Lipscomb | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9 |
| North Alabama | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | 8 |
| North Florida | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 11 |
| Queens | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 11 |
| Stetson | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | 9 |
| West Georgia | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No[a] | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9 |
| Associate members | |||||||||||||
| Coastal Carolina | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
| Delaware | Yes | Yes | 2 | ||||||||||
| Gardner–Webb | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
| Georgia Southern | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
| Kennesaw State | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
| Liberty | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
| Lindenwood | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
| Old Dominion | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
| UNC Asheville | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 12 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 4+5 | 12 | 12 | 4+5 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 116+10 |
Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the league which are played by ASUN schools:
| School | Field hockey | Rowing | Rugby[a] | Stunt[a] | Triathlon[a] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellarmine | MAC[53] | No | No | No | No |
| Central Arkansas | No | No | No | Independent | No |
| Jacksonville | No | MAAC | No | No | No |
| Queens | IND | No | IND | No | IND |
| Stetson | No | MAAC | No | No | No |
| West Georgia | No | No | No | No[b] | No |
In addition to the aforementioned sports:
| School | Basketball arena | Capacity | Baseball stadium | Capacity | Soccer stadium | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Peay | F&M Bank Arena | 5,500 | Raymond C. Hand Park | 777 | Morgan Brothers Field | 800 |
| Bellarmine | Knights Hall | 2,196 | Knights Field | — | Owsley B. Frazier Stadium | 2,000 |
| Central Arkansas | Farris Center | 6,000 | Bear Stadium | 1,000 | Bill Stephens Track/Soccer Complex | 1,000 |
| Eastern Kentucky | Baptist Health Arena | 6,300 | Turkey Hughes Field | 500 | EKU Soccer Field | 400 |
| Florida Gulf Coast | Alico Arena | 4,633 | Swanson Stadium | 1,500 | FGCU Soccer Complex | 1,500 |
| Jacksonville | Swisher Gymnasium | 1,500 | John Sessions Stadium | 1,500 | Southern Oak Stadium | 500 |
| Lipscomb | Allen Arena | 5,028 | Ken Dugan Field | 1,500 | Lipscomb Soccer Complex | 600 |
| North Alabama | Flowers Hall | 3,900 | Mike D. Lane Field | 1,500 | Bill Jones Athletic Complex | — |
| North Florida | UNF Arena | 5,800 | Harmon Stadium | 1,000 | Hodges Stadium | 9,300 |
| Queens | Curry Arena | 2,500 | Tuckaseegee Dream Fields | — | Dickson Field | — |
| Stetson | Edmunds Center | 5,000 | Melching Field at Conrad Park | 2,500 | Stetson Soccer Complex | 500 |
| West Georgia | The Coliseum | 6,469 | Cole Field | 500 | University Soccer Field | 250 |
The Jesse C. Fletcher and Sherman Day Trophies are awarded each year to the top men's and women's program in the conference. The Bill Bibb Trophy, combining the men's and women's results for the best overall program, was first awarded in 2006–07. East Tennessee State won this overall trophy seven of the nine years it has been awarded; Florida Gulf Coast won in 2012–13, 2014–15 and 2015–16.[54]
| Year | Champion |
|---|---|
| 1978–79 | Oklahoma City |
| 1979–80 | Northeast Louisiana |
| 1980–81 | Northeast Louisiana |
| 1981–82 | Northeast Louisiana |
| 1982–83 | Georgia Southern |
| 1983–84 | Centenary |
| 1984–85 | Georgia Southern |
| 1985–86 | Houston Baptist |
| 1986–87 | Georgia Southern |
| 1987–88 | Georgia Southern |
| 1988–89 | Georgia Southern |
| 1989–90 | Georgia Southern |
| 1990–91 | Georgia Southern |
| 1991–92 | Florida International |
| 1992–93 | Florida International |
| 1993–94 | Florida International |
| 1994–95 | Central Florida |
| 1995–96 | Central Florida |
| 1996–97 | Florida International |
| 1997–98 | Georgia State |
| 1998–99 | Central Florida |
| 1999–00 | Georgia State |
| 2000–01 | Georgia State |
| 2001–02 | Georgia State |
| 2002–03 | Central Florida |
| 2003–04 | Central Florida |
| 2004–05 | Central Florida |
| 2005–06 | East Tennessee State |
| 2006–07 | East Tennessee State |
| 2007–08 | East Tennessee State |
| 2008–09 | East Tennessee State |
| 2009–10 | East Tennessee State |
| 2010–11 | East Tennessee State |
| 2011–12 | East Tennessee State |
| 2012–13 | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2013–14 | East Tennessee State |
| 2014–15 | North Florida |
| 2015–16 | North Florida |
| 2017–18 | North Florida |
| 2018–19 | Liberty |
| 2021–22 | Liberty |
| 2022–23 | Liberty |
| 2023–24 | Lipscomb |
| Year | Champion |
|---|---|
| 1978–79 | None |
| 1979–80 | None |
| 1980–81 | None |
| 1981–82 | None |
| 1982–83 | None |
| 1983–84 | None |
| 1984–85 | None |
| 1985–86 | Stetson, Georgia State |
| 1986–87 | Stetson |
| 1987–88 | Georgia State |
| 1988–89 | Georgia State |
| 1989–90 | Georgia State |
| 1990–91 | Florida International |
| 1991–92 | Florida International |
| 1992–93 | Georgia State |
| 1993–94 | Florida International |
| 1994–95 | Campbell |
| 1995–96 | Central Florida |
| 1996–97 | Central Florida |
| 1997–98 | Georgia State |
| 1998–99 | Central Florida |
| 1999–00 | Georgia State |
| 2000–01 | Georgia State |
| 2001–02 | Central Florida |
| 2002–03 | Central Florida |
| 2003–04 | Central Florida |
| 2004–05 | Central Florida |
| 2005–06 | Florida Atlantic |
| 2006–07 | East Tennessee State |
| 2007–08 | Jacksonville |
| 2008–09 | Jacksonville |
| 2009–10 | Kennesaw State |
| 2010–11 | Jacksonville |
| 2011–12 | Kennesaw State |
| 2012–13 | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2013–14 | Jacksonville |
| 2014–15 | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2015–16 | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2016–17 | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2017–18 | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2018–19 | Liberty |
| 2021–22 | Liberty |
| 2022–23 | Liberty |
| 2023–24 | Lipscomb |
| Year | Champion |
|---|---|
| 2006–07 | ETSU |
| 2007–08 | ETSU |
| 2008–09 | ETSU |
| 2009–10 | ETSU |
| 2010–11 | ETSU |
| 2011–12 | ETSU |
| 2012–13 | FGCU |
| 2013–14 | ETSU |
| 2014–15 | FGCU |
| 2015–16 | FGCU |
| 2016–17 | FGCU |
| 2017–18 | Kennesaw State |
| 2018–19 | Liberty |
| 2021–22 | Liberty |
| 2022–23 | Liberty |
| 2023–24 | Lipscomb |
This is a partial list of the last 10 champions. For the full history, seeASUN men's basketball tournament.[55]
| Season | Reg. season champions(s) | Tournament champion |
|---|---|---|
| 2015–16 | North Florida | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2016–17 | Florida Gulf Coast | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2017–18 | Florida Gulf Coast | Lipscomb |
| 2018–19 | Lipscomb Liberty | Liberty |
| 2019–20 | Liberty North Florida | Liberty |
| 2020–21 | Liberty | Liberty |
| 2021–22 | Liberty (East) Jacksonville State (West) | Bellarmine[a] |
| 2022–23 | Kennesaw State Liberty | Kennesaw State |
| 2023–24 | Eastern Kentucky | Stetson |
| 2024–25 | Lipscomb North Alabama | Lipscomb |
This is a partial list of the last 10 champions. For the full history, seeASUN women's basketball tournament.[56]
| Season | Reg. season champions(s) | Tournament champion |
|---|---|---|
| 2015–16 | Florida Gulf Coast | Jacksonville |
| 2016–17 | Stetson | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2017–18 | Florida Gulf Coast | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2018–19 | Florida Gulf Coast | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2019–20 | Florida Gulf Coast | None (COVID-19) |
| 2020–21 | Florida Gulf Coast | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2021–22 | Florida Gulf Coast (East, and overall) Jacksonville State (West) | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2022–23 | Florida Gulf Coast | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2023–24 | Florida Gulf Coast | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 2024–25 | Florida Gulf Coast | Florida Gulf Coast |
The league serves up its second season with opening matches this weekend featuring (16) FIU, (12) Florida Atlantic and UAB, along with new members Jacksonville State and (ARV) Tulane.
Stephen F. Austin begins its first season in the league and is set to open its 2022 campaign at the Kingsville Tournament where they face Ottawa, Texas A&M Kingsville, Missouri Baptist and Colorado Mesa.
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