Sunbelt Conference Baseball Standings (2024)

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Southern Miss refuses to lose, wins dramatic Sun Belt championship game over Ga.

Southern Miss refuses to lose, wins dramatic Sun Belt championship game over Ga.

The Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament is a ten team double-elimination tournament held annually at various sites in the Sun Belt Conference region. The bottom four seeds play a one round single elimination play in game.

The report also stated that the Sun Belt would add three more members—the aforementioned Marshall and Old Dominion, plus James Madison University, a member of the FCS Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). Southern Miss and Old Dominion were respectively announced as incoming members on October 26 and 27.

MONTGOMERY, Ala.

Southern Miss overcame a tournament record six home runs by Georgia Southern, rallying with a five-run ninth inning to take a 14-11 win over the Eagles on Sunday in the championship game of the Guardian Credit Union Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship presented by Troy University.

The Sun Belt led the non-autonomy conferences with 11 Top 75 teams in the Fox Sports Preseason Ultimate 134; five Top 75 programs in the USA Today Sports Preseason Re-Rank 1-134; and four Top 75 nods in the ESPN Preseason SP+ Rankings.

NEW ORLEANS — The Sun Belt Conference begins a new chapter in its history on Friday, July 1, as it officially welcomes James Madison, Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Miss to its 14-member conference.

“The Sun Belt has been a proponent of expansion from the beginning.” The Sun Belt's goal is to get a team in the new 12-team playoff format each season. The highest-ranked conference champion from the Group of Five automatically qualifies.

The Sun Belt Conference (SBC) is a conference of 14 universities which participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I.

Has a Sun Belt team ever been ranked? ›

In fact, no Sun belt team had ever been ranked in the top 25. But as time went on those FCS teams actually highly benefitted the conference, Appalachian State and Georgia Southern ended up winning the conference multiple times. Appalachian State and Coastal Carolina both had top 25 seasons.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – James Madison and Arkansas State earned victories to secure spots in Monday evening's 2024 Hercules Tires Sun Belt Men's Basketball Championship Game at the Pensacola Bay Center. The title game will be televised nationally on ESPN with tipoff scheduled for 6 p.m. CT.

Note: The 18 states in the Sun Belt include: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, & Utah.

With the start of the 2024 football season, the Sun Belt will be the only FBS conference split into divisions. Other conferences have abandoned divisions with the new 12-team College Football Playoff that begins this season.

With 14 member institutions in 10 contiguous states, the Sun Belt is committed to its identity as a regional conference with a divisional model. The Sun Belt East Division includes App State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison, Marshall and Old Dominion.

The Sun Belt is a region of the U.S. that extends from the Southeast across to the Southwest. It begins in southern Virginia, going down to Florida, and then across to Southern California. It is termed the Sun Belt because of the region's warm and sunny climate.

Marshall was uniquely positioned in this round of realignment because of the number of options we had, which is a testament to our strong national brand, reputation and passionate fan base." The Sun Belt Conference was founded in 1976 and began sponsoring football in 2001.

Tides win Triple-A Championship.