The Sun Belt in 2018-19 continued where it has often been in recent years, as a good, solid conference, but also one struggling to break into a higher tier among Division I leagues.
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The Morning Dish – Saturday, December 15, 2018
The NCAA’s changes to allow time in June for players to be evaluated with their school teams was well-intentioned, but reality is a little more complicated. Plus a light night of game action, a heart procedure appears to have gone well, and a longer deal for a coach in North Carolina.
2016-17 Sun Belt Post-Mortem
The Sun Belt was one of the best-kept secrets of the college basketball season, with improved teams and an improving cache of star power leading to its best year collectively in more than a decade.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 20, 2016
Rhode Island and Saint Mary’s are two teams who were on nearly everybody’s hot sleeper lists entering this season, and both had significant early-season chances yesterday to show they are worthy of the relative buzz that has built around them. Both teams passed their tests on Saturday with flying colors. […]
The Morning Dish – Friday, November 18, 2016
Like too many events in the ever increasingly (and overly) cluttered landscape of college basketball exempted tournaments, the Tire Pros Invitational has an identity crisis, but it has furnished four solid semifinalists this year.
2015-16 Sun Belt Post-Mortem
The Sun Belt Conference provided the biggest surprise of the 2015-16 college basketball season, as Arkansas-Little Rock rose from 13 wins to 30 under a first-year coach.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 19, 2016
On Monday, Oklahoma ascended to the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time in 26 years. The Sooners’ stay there will almost certainly be a short one.
2014-15 Sun Belt Post-Mortem
Seemingly in a perpetual search for an identity due to so many membership changes in recent years, the Sun Belt Conference found one in 2014-15 as a conference that provided a little of it all.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 18, 2014
There may not be another game this entire college basketball season that was more predictable than last night’s interconference matchup between Cincinnati and San Diego State. As expected, the game between the Bearcats and Aztecs was an evenly matched defensive grinder.
2013-14 Sun Belt Post-Mortem
Membership changes have been happening at quite a pace of late in the Sun Belt, and it was a new member that stole the show for much of this past season and seems poised to lead the way in the future.
