Sunbelt Basketball

[TSUWhiner]

Here are the season standings for the Sunbelt Conference. I hope everyone is excited about playing new teams for next year!

East

Arkansas LR 10-4, 18-9
Western Kentucky 9-5, 20-7
MTSU 7-7, 18-11
Arkansas St. 7-7, 15-12
FIU 4-10, 11-16

West

Denver 12-3, 18-9
LA Lafayette 11-4, 17-10
New Orleans 7-8, 13-16
North Texas 6-9, 14-13
South Alabama 6-9, 10-17
New Mexico State 1-14, 6-23

[tntrojan]

Seems odd that South Alabama is in the West and Ark State and UALR are in the East.

[TrojanFan2]

A North-South alignment would make more sense to me.

[troymarkus]

I can't find out what the divisions will be next year. Anyone have a clue?

[CajunNation]

Greetings Troy fans. 8)

From what I could gather, it is going to be a north/south alignment eventually

NORTH
Denver :?:
Little Rock
Arkansas State
North Texas
ULM
Middle Tennessee
Western Kentucky :?:

SOUTH
Louisiana
New Orleans
Troy
South Alabama
FIU
FAU

[TROYgirl128]

Would it not make sense for us to be in the East so that each one has 6 teams? I guess if some teams are leaving the SunBelt then that would make things a little more complicated.

[littlebittyschool]

Wipe them out Cajuns... all of them (I've been way too into Star Wars Lately).

Win it all Sunbelt Brothas and let's divy up that tourney moola amongst the Belt schools so we can buy bigger playe... I mean bigger stadiums next year!

We should be cheering for our new conference mates if for nothing else that it benifits us. On the flip side, it will be a small consolation to UCF that as they are gettting pounded by 40 from UCONN that the Setting Sun conference won't get any extra cash that they would have made from winning.

Lock of the tourney: LSU over UAB. Take it to the bank. Even more safe than North Carolina over Oakland. Bet the farm kids.

Geaux Louisiana Cajuns! Kill Kill Kill Chicken Rick!

[CajunNation]

Louisiana/Louisiville predictions

This game is going to be VERY physical. Mark my words.

Whoever gets in foul trouble first will lose.

Someone will get T'd.

Dewayne Mitchell will wow the crowd with his freakish athleticism.

Tiras Wade.Tiras Wade.Tiras Wade.
That is what is repeating over and over in Pitino's head right now.


I sure wish I could predict a win. The guys really want to win a couple games this season. We just got a horrible draw.

However, we will give them HELL! :evil:

By the way, Pitino is 0-1 vs. the Cajuns.
We beat him at Rupp Arena in his Kentucky years. It was the first non-conference home loss in like a decade or something like that for Kentucky.

[UCF99]

"On the flip side, it will be a small consolation to UCF that as they are gettting pounded by 40 from UCONN"
UCF lost but played a gutty as hell game, guess you were wrong. Hope you enjoyed watching Troy do nothing in the post season.
Enjoy the Sunbelt.

[littlebittyschool]

University of Cat Fungus writes:
Hope you enjoyed watching Troy do nothing in the post season.
Enjoy the Sunbelt.


Actually, what I'll REALLY enjoy is never seeing any more UCF posts again on my message boards.

Enjoy fighting it out with UAB and UTEP for the soon to be single-bid Conference DOA, A.K.A the conference where every school goes by their initials.

[BlueRaiderPride]

I can't find out what the divisions will be next year. Anyone have a clue?

I think this is what Waters has said:

2005-2006

East
----
Middle Tennessee
Florida International
Western Kentucky
Troy University
Arkansas State
Arkansas-Little Rock

West
----
Denver
North Texas
New Orleans
Louisiana-Monroe
Louisiana-Lafayette
South Alabama

2006-2007

East
----
Middle Tennessee
Western Kentucky
Florida International
Florida Atlantic
Troy University
South Alabama

West
----
Denver
Arkansas State
Arkansas-Little Rock
Louisiana-Lafayette
Louisiana-Monroe
North Texas
New Orleans

[BMarkey]

UCF lost but played a gutty as hell game

They continue to claim Troy is not a rival and not important, but they keep coming back with their cheap shots and classless posts. Interesting.