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Will this be a breakout year for the Sun Belt in Football AND Basketball?
So far the Sun Belt is having probably its best year ever in football. But what about basketball? I've been reading some very positive things come from Coach Arrow at USA. We think we finally have a true point guard, and Coach Arrow says this has a chance to be his best defensive team he's ever had. I know that UNT will be tough with Tony Mitchell, and MTSU and WKU will be good. There are other potentially decent teams in the league. I know we will still have some high RPI teams in our league, but it's been a while since we've had this many potentially good teams in the same year. Will this be a breakout year for the Sun Belt in basketball as well?
09-26-2012 10:46 PM
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RE: Will this be a breakout year for the Sun Belt in Football AND Basketball?
Basketball will have some help simply because of the 20 game league schedule, however we have a much longer way to go to earn our respect back.
09-26-2012 10:55 PM
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(09-26-2012 10:55 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Basketball will have some help simply because of the 20 game league schedule, however we have a much longer way to go to earn our respect back.

The 20 game league schedule won't help if the league as a whole sucks. But, like the OP said, this could be a potentially incredible year for the conference. On paper I think we're a two bid league, with the potential for three if the right teams were upset in the conference tournament. MT is going to be very, very good again. We're even deeper than last year and although we lost Dendy, the pieces are there to help make up for the lost production. A UNT, MT, USA, WKU final four in Hot Springs could be fun as hell to watch.
09-27-2012 08:43 AM
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RE: Will this be a breakout year for the Sun Belt in Football AND Basketball?
(09-27-2012 08:43 AM)MTowho Wrote:  
(09-26-2012 10:55 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Basketball will have some help simply because of the 20 game league schedule, however we have a much longer way to go to earn our respect back.

The 20 game league schedule won't help if the league as a whole sucks. But, like the OP said, this could be a potentially incredible year for the conference. On paper I think we're a two bid league, with the potential for three if the right teams were upset in the conference tournament. MT is going to be very, very good again. We're even deeper than last year and although we lost Dendy, the pieces are there to help make up for the lost production. A UNT, MT, USA, WKU final four in Hot Springs could be fun as hell to watch.


Name to remember: Neiko Hunter, who will be taking Dendy's spot in the starting lineup.
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RE: Will this be a breakout year for the Sun Belt in Football AND Basketball?
(09-27-2012 10:04 AM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  
(09-27-2012 08:43 AM)MTowho Wrote:  
(09-26-2012 10:55 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Basketball will have some help simply because of the 20 game league schedule, however we have a much longer way to go to earn our respect back.

The 20 game league schedule won't help if the league as a whole sucks. But, like the OP said, this could be a potentially incredible year for the conference. On paper I think we're a two bid league, with the potential for three if the right teams were upset in the conference tournament. MT is going to be very, very good again. We're even deeper than last year and although we lost Dendy, the pieces are there to help make up for the lost production. A UNT, MT, USA, WKU final four in Hot Springs could be fun as hell to watch.


Name to remember: Neiko Hunter, who will be taking Dendy's spot in the starting lineup.

It is entirely dependent upon non-conference performance by our league members. I haven't looked at the schedules yet but if the majority of our teams beat the teams they should and a few of our teams knock off some of the mid/lower level Big 6 conference folks, this could be a turnaround year. Then again, if we all beat each other up in conference games and there aren't 2-3 clearly above the rest, it's moot.
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RE: Will this be a breakout year for the Sun Belt in Football AND Basketball?
The big games for us are: at Flordia, at UCF, at Akron, UAB, Ole Miss, at Belmont, and Vanderbilt (at Bridgestone Arena)

I'm excited for basketball season to start; our women's team will be even better than last year and our men's team looks like they can have another successful year.
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Official schedule not out yet, but this appears to be the Mean Green OC schedule.

@ Creighton
@ K-State (NIT 1st round) UNT, K-State, Lamar, Ala. Huntsville)
vs UTA
@ Saint Louis
vs SE Louisiana
vs Jackson State
vs Lehigh
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(09-27-2012 01:09 PM)MG61 Wrote:  Official schedule not out yet, but this appears to be the Mean Green OC schedule.

@ Creighton
@ K-State (NIT 1st round) UNT, K-State, Lamar, Ala. Huntsville)
vs UTA
@ Saint Louis
vs SE Louisiana
vs Jackson State
vs Lehigh

A lot of chances for UNT to prove they are for real this year; Creighton, K-State, Saint Louis, and Lehigh all should be great games.
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ASU does not play a single major conference team this year, however we play multiple mid majors who were in the NCAA's last year. We'll have a shot to do some damage.
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RE: Will this be a breakout year for the Sun Belt in Football AND Basketball?
WKU's Non-Conference Schedule:

@Southern Miss
Austin Peay
Western Carolina
Iowa and Depaul/Wichita State (@Cancun)
Brescia
SIU
IUPUI
@Murray State
@VCU
Louisville (in Nashville)
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RE: Will this be a breakout year for the Sun Belt in Football AND Basketball?
(09-27-2012 02:07 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  WKU's Non-Conference Schedule:

@Southern Miss
Austin Peay
Western Carolina
Iowa and Depaul/Wichita State (@Cancun)
Brescia
SIU
IUPUI
@Murray State
@VCU
Louisville (in Nashville)

Are the Louisville/WKU and Vandy/MT games at Bridgestone on the same day again this year? The Sun Belt Classic or whatever?
09-27-2012 02:23 PM
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(09-27-2012 02:23 PM)MTowho Wrote:  
(09-27-2012 02:07 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  WKU's Non-Conference Schedule:

@Southern Miss
Austin Peay
Western Carolina
Iowa and Depaul/Wichita State (@Cancun)
Brescia
SIU
IUPUI
@Murray State
@VCU
Louisville (in Nashville)

Are the Louisville/WKU and Vandy/MT games at Bridgestone on the same day again this year? The Sun Belt Classic or whatever?

Not sure. The WKU/Loserville game is on December 22nd.
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(09-27-2012 02:26 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  Not sure. The WKU/Loserville game is on December 22nd.

Guess not, but the same weekend. We play on Friday the 21st.
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Breakout as far as not being in the opening round game again? 03-wink


I would hope so - WKU, MTSU, UALR, ULL, USA etc have far too good tradition in basketball to have the conference champion be so lowly seeded.
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The Sun Belt should be much improved in basketball this year, but to get any national recognition it is going to take winning OOC games. Multiple teams are going to have to do it and we are going to have to be at or over .500 in OOC games to see any real difference in our RPI as a league. If we can get the RPI up then the multiple bids and better seeds will follow. Last years play-in game was due to WKU having an abysmal regular season, followed by a strong finish that landed them in the NCAA. Typically a Sun Belt champion will get a better seed than 16.
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Troy’s women's basketball should be much improved. Our new coach is fantastic and she brought in a great coaching staff.
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I have no idea on FAU basketball either Mens or Womens.

We lost a few players on the mens but our 7" Baylor transfer Dragan is elligible this year.

Womens has a new coach, so Im sure there is some rebuilding there.

Lots of that going on at FAU with the new president and AD. Doubt FAU will be competative for a year or 2.
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Our new women's basketball coach Chanda Rigby.


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I know there aren't many that care about women's basketball outside of Murfreesboro, Little Rock and Bowling Green(and the interest there has seriously waned thanks to MTC) but the Lady Raiders have a shot at being the best overall team in any sport for the entire conference. We've been talking about taking that next step for some time now, hopefully this is the year we finally get it done. We have an excellent chance to make some noise in the preseason WNIT, we probably have our best shot we've ever had at knocking off the Lady Vols and with bringing back everyone(with the exception of one bench player) from last year's 26-7 team and the addition of the biggest woman most Sun Belt fans will have ever seen in their life...I don't see us being challenged much at all this year. Would not be surprised at all to see coach Insell to get his 2nd 30 win season.
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Will this be a breakout year for the Sun Belt in Football AND Basketball?
Ualr returns returns most of the team that won their division last year but lost the best pg we have had in the shields' era.

We have 2 freshmen pg's, so we have a rough ooc schedule but should start winning just in time to kill everyone's rpi :/
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