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Thursday, December 26, 2024
If good things come in threes, college basketball delivered good things in the form of three big overtime games on Thursday night. Plus an early showdown is ahead in one conference, a few other interesting results on the night, and a Husky must sit because of academics.
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.
Half of the field headed to New York in the NIT is known, and both could use this as a springboard into next season. Plus more action in the CIT, coaching changes take center stage and more players are on the move as well.
Wofford struck for an incredible run in the final minutes to rally for the Southern Conference title to cap an incredible run through the league, while UNC Greensboro now waits. Plus, more conference tourney roundups, and firings showing where schools’ priorities still are.
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.
Super mega ultra conferences can collect members like teenage boys once accumulated baseball cards. They can even brag about having 10, 11, 12 NCAA Tournament contenders. That will never change this fact: there is no substitute for a double round-robin conference race in college basketball. The Missouri Valley Conference is […]
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.
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.
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.
