[1] On July 22, 2014, the A-Sun announced Northern Kentucky will be eligible for all conference postseason championships for which their teams qualify starting with the upcoming 2014-15 academic year, as part of their transition to Division I from Division II.
The change in A-Sun policy arose after NCAA clarification that a conference may set specific criteria allowing its highest ranked finisher to be the AQ recipient if a non-eligible team were to participate and win the conference postseason tournament.
Prior policy had determined that the conference would lose its AQ if an ineligible team won the tournament.
[2] However, that potential scenario did not happen, as the Norse lost their first-round game to Lipscomb by a score of 76-73.
East Tennessee State, along with defending champion Mercer, did not participate in the tournament after moving to the Southern Conference.