Elite Level
The Sun Belt is one of four mid-major conferences that has 4 or more teams in the Top 110 of the latest NCAA RPI (Jan. 29): UTA (#58), A-State (#71), Georgia Southern (#106) and Georgia State (#107).
Together We Rise
The Sun Belt is in a class of its own as a mid-major basketball league. It is the only mid-major conference that had both a first-round pick in the 2014 and 2015 NBA Drafts while also having a team win a game in the 2015 and 2016 NCAA Tournaments. Below is a list of conferences that accomplished both of those feats: ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, PAC-12, SEC, Sun Belt
Cinderella Lives Here
Little Rock’s thrilling 85-83 double-overtime win against No.