From Staff Reports

The Big South Conference announced in early November that it will hold its annual basketball tournament in Asheville during March 2016.

Specifically, the league’s women’s tournament will be held March 10-13 at Kimmel Arena on the campus of UNC Asheville.

That will follow the Southern Conference men’s and women’s tournaments, which will be held March 3-7 at the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville.

The BSC’s men’s and women’s tournaments were originally scheduled to be hosted by Coastal Carolina. However, after that school announced it was leaving the Sun Belt Conference beginning in 2016, the league took away any championships Coastal Carolina would host before departing to the Sun Belt Conference.

The Asheville bid was made primarily by UNCA — and with the full support of the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission.