James Madison University will join the Sun Belt Conference July 1, the university and the conference announced in a joint press conference Wednesday morning. This news follows a Nov. 6 announcement that JMU will join no later than July 1, 2023. The move marks the first new addition to the Sun Belt since Coastal Carolina joined in July 2016.
“I can’t tell you how excited I am to have that timetable accelerated,” said Keith Gill, Sun Belt conference commissioner. “We’re just through the moon that we can have JMU be a full member of our conference a year sooner than we thought.