NEW ORLEANS, La. – The seedings and pairings for next week's 2017 Sun Belt Basketball Championships, hosted at Lakefront Arena in New Orleans and present by First Bank and Trust, have been determined following the conclusion of the conference's regular-season schedule Saturday evening. Both the Texas State men's and women's teams earned No. 4 seeds and first-round byes in their pursuit of the tournament championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.
The Bobcat men, who finished the season with an 18-12 overall record an 11-7 league mark, will play the winner of No. 5 seed Arkansas State and No.