The Arkansas State men’s basketball team fell one win short of the Sun Belt championship and an automatic NCAA Tournament berth when it fell 94-81 Monday night to Troy at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Fla. The Red Wolves led 66-58 with 10:07 to play after a three-pointer by Derrian Ford, but the Trojans ended the game on a 36-15 run.
Tayton Conerway, the Sun Belt Player of the Year, scored 21 points for Troy (23-10) while Myles Rigsby tallied 20. Thomas Dowd put up 14 points, Jackson Fields supplied 10 and Marcus Rigsby Jr. had 8.