#4 seed in Pensacola

[AppFan11]

The tournament really should be pretty fun to watch. Really anybody can win it. Don’t we all love the era of nil/rev-share and the one year rosters? It’s not surprising that we are all bunched up… we are all in the same situation. Unless somehow a coach wins “ the rubric’s cube” of annual roster mgmt, or some fan wins the lottery and gives the basketball program a couple of million $$, I think this is where we are. I think Dustin does a very good job and we are lucky to have him. I think this year’s roster was a couple of game ready players away from being dominate. A seven player roster playing tough D game after game gets tired at the end of the season. Hopefully, a week off will recoup some of their legs. And we need at least one of our shooters (Jennings or Dodd) to get their confidence back. You know we’ll play good D.

[Seattleapp]

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Thanks for posting the bracket. I’m happy we made the top four but man this is the most unfair bracket format I’ve ever seen.

Not trying to pick a fight but what’s unfair about it? It rewards teams that succeed during the regular season. Isn’t that what a one-bid league like the Sun Belt should want?

There’s nothing about it that’s fair if the goal
Is to have an authentic actual tournament. Rewarding regular season with seeding makes sense. Putting the top two seeds in the semi finals is overkill. A team has to theoretically win 6 games just to get to the semi finals. That’s not a tournament. Like appdaze said, if the sunbelt is just protecting the top 4-6 teams then just have them make the “tournament”

[JTApps1]

The tournament really should be pretty fun to watch. Really anybody can win it. Don’t we all love the era of nil/rev-share and the one year rosters? It’s not surprising that we are all bunched up… we are all in the same situation. Unless somehow a coach wins “ the rubric’s cube” of annual roster mgmt, or some fan wins the lottery and gives the basketball program a couple of million $$, I think this is where we are. I think Dustin does a very good job and we are lucky to have him. I think this year’s roster was a couple of game ready players away from being dominate. A seven player roster playing tough D game after game gets tired at the end of the season. Hopefully, a week off will recoup some of their legs. And we need at least one of our shooters (Jennings or Dodd) to get their confidence back. You know we’ll play good D.

Add Vasser into our lineup and things like would look different. It's hard for teams at our level to overcome the loss of a starter but at least we are in the hunt still.

[AppGrad20]

Although Dodd should have tried scoring rather than kicking it out to Banks on the final play last night, I do wish he attacked to kick out more often.

I crunched the numbers. He was 7-36 (19.4%) from 3 in January. He was 9-40 (22.5%) from 3 in February. Puts him at 16-76 (21.1%) for all of 2026. He is 28.2% on the year so the earlier games heavily inflate the numbers.

Wish him or Kerns would realize this. Much rather have Tot, Marcus Jr., or Jennings have open looks from Dodd attacking rather than Dodd chucking up a low % shot.

[appfanjj]

Teams not playing each other in the regular season made the tiebreakers funky. Every team needs to play every team once, that shouldn’t be difficult.

I think it came down to teams records vs S Miss and JMU. So odd. Texas State got hosed, IMO.

Agreed tiebreakers are weird given conference setup. I assume the schedules are slanted more East/West for travel costs.

We should just add a game to conference schedule so we play everyone and take away one of our contest against either school of the blind or Bible College.

Maybe take away the February part of the SBC - MAC challenge rather than add a game. All those games are played on basically the same day so adjust the schedules to play a crossover SBC team AND get rid of an early season cupcake.

[ncman071]

watched the game last night...really think we are the better team, but just dont get why we jacked up so many 3's when we wont hitting them...i think we shot 18% from three....makes no sense...and of course..free throws.....regardless..still a solid regular season...yet another winning campaign...top 4 seed for the tournament...would love to at least get 1 win...to get to 20 then who knows after that

[Cro-Magnon App]

Takes a college degree to figure out the d@#n bracket.

[diehardapp18]

I thought that bracket was a parody joke of some kind. That is the dumbest bracket I've ever seen. If the Belt is that worried about getting one of their top 4 teams in the tourney then just have the top 4 play for the chip.

That would be a much more significant mess, under your proposition three of the 6 teams tied at 11-7 wouldn’t even get to play in the tournament

My comment wasn't a proposition as much as it is a commentary on the absurd tournament set up we have for the sole purpose of getting one of our top 4 teams in the NCAA tourney. This year is a fluke with so many 11-7 teams. If you are in one of those first games you have to win 6-7+ games in a row to win the conference. The top 4 teams have to win 2+. Thats just silly at that point. The conference is already flipping the bird to some of the 11-7 teams. South Alabama and Texas state have to win 2 extra games; App and Coastal have to win 1 extra game, as compared to Marshall. So some of those 11-7 teams you are worried about are already getting hosed.

I simply don’t see what’s absurd about the notion that your best teams get the easiest path to the NCAA Tournament

[ASU07]

Takes a college degree to figure out the d@#n bracket.

I love the format of the Sunbelt tournament. It rewards teams for how they perform in the regular season. For a one bid league makes perfect sense. Just one persons opinion.

[appdaze]

I thought that bracket was a parody joke of some kind. That is the dumbest bracket I've ever seen. If the Belt is that worried about getting one of their top 4 teams in the tourney then just have the top 4 play for the chip.

That would be a much more significant mess, under your proposition three of the 6 teams tied at 11-7 wouldn’t even get to play in the tournament

My comment wasn't a proposition as much as it is a commentary on the absurd tournament set up we have for the sole purpose of getting one of our top 4 teams in the NCAA tourney. This year is a fluke with so many 11-7 teams. If you are in one of those first games you have to win 6-7+ games in a row to win the conference. The top 4 teams have to win 2+. Thats just silly at that point. The conference is already flipping the bird to some of the 11-7 teams. South Alabama and Texas state have to win 2 extra games; App and Coastal have to win 1 extra game, as compared to Marshall. So some of those 11-7 teams you are worried about are already getting hosed.

I simply don’t see what’s absurd about the notion that your best teams get the easiest path to the NCAA Tournament

If you look at that bracket and don't see whats absurd about it I just don't know how to better explain it. If you goal, as you state, is to have your best teams in the tourney, then I bring you back to my first point that you criticized. Just have your top 4 ish teams duke it out for the tourney spot. Don't even bother with the rest of the teams. So in a way, you pretty much made my point. If you want your best teams to have the easiest path to the tourney then don't bother with a week long tourney with the lower teams. Don't bother making your best teams sit for a week and lose much of their in season moment to possibly get upset by a streaky lower team who built momentum over the last week.

[BambooRdApp]

Every team, that made the tournament, has an opportunity to win. Want a higher seeding, win more conference games.
As someonen.jas said in the past... shoot well, you have an opportunity to win. Evidently, certain teams did not shoot well enough to beat their conference opponents during the regular season.
They can cry harder...

[Saint3333]

The only thing I’d change is have one less round. Have eight teams play in the first round.

[hapapp]

I thought that bracket was a parody joke of some kind. That is the dumbest bracket I've ever seen. If the Belt is that worried about getting one of their top 4 teams in the tourney then just have the top 4 play for the chip.

That would be a much more significant mess, under your proposition three of the 6 teams tied at 11-7 wouldn’t even get to play in the tournament

My comment wasn't a proposition as much as it is a commentary on the absurd tournament set up we have for the sole purpose of getting one of our top 4 teams in the NCAA tourney. This year is a fluke with so many 11-7 teams. If you are in one of those first games you have to win 6-7+ games in a row to win the conference. The top 4 teams have to win 2+. Thats just silly at that point. The conference is already flipping the bird to some of the 11-7 teams. South Alabama and Texas state have to win 2 extra games; App and Coastal have to win 1 extra game, as compared to Marshall. So some of those 11-7 teams you are worried about are already getting hosed.

I simply don’t see what’s absurd about the notion that your best teams get the easiest path to the NCAA Tournament

If you look at that bracket and don't see whats absurd about it I just don't know how to better explain it. If you goal, as you state, is to have your best teams in the tourney, then I bring you back to my first point that you criticized. Just have your top 4 ish teams duke it out for the tourney spot. Don't even bother with the rest of the teams. So in a way, you pretty much made my point. If you want your best teams to have the easiest path to the tourney then don't bother with a week long tourney with the lower teams. Don't bother making your best teams sit for a week and lose much of their in season moment to possibly get upset by a streaky lower team who built momentum over the last week.

The season finished with a six way tie for second, who are you going to eliminate?

[appdaze]

That would be a much more significant mess, under your proposition three of the 6 teams tied at 11-7 wouldn’t even get to play in the tournament

My comment wasn't a proposition as much as it is a commentary on the absurd tournament set up we have for the sole purpose of getting one of our top 4 teams in the NCAA tourney. This year is a fluke with so many 11-7 teams. If you are in one of those first games you have to win 6-7+ games in a row to win the conference. The top 4 teams have to win 2+. Thats just silly at that point. The conference is already flipping the bird to some of the 11-7 teams. South Alabama and Texas state have to win 2 extra games; App and Coastal have to win 1 extra game, as compared to Marshall. So some of those 11-7 teams you are worried about are already getting hosed.

I simply don’t see what’s absurd about the notion that your best teams get the easiest path to the NCAA Tournament

If you look at that bracket and don't see whats absurd about it I just don't know how to better explain it. If you goal, as you state, is to have your best teams in the tourney, then I bring you back to my first point that you criticized. Just have your top 4 ish teams duke it out for the tourney spot. Don't even bother with the rest of the teams. So in a way, you pretty much made my point. If you want your best teams to have the easiest path to the tourney then don't bother with a week long tourney with the lower teams. Don't bother making your best teams sit for a week and lose much of their in season moment to possibly get upset by a streaky lower team who built momentum over the last week.

The season finished with a six way tie for second, who are you going to eliminate?

How many seasons has that happened? Are we going to judge a format based on a 1 in a 10,000 chance season? Thats just silly. There are plenty of forms of tie breakes used in various pro and collegiate sports that could be used starting with head to head records and even using point differentials etc. Either way, the current format is silly. If every team is going to be in the tournament then make it a normal bracketed tournament. Not this still mess. Once again, as I've had to restate multiple times, if the goal of the conference is to put what they believe is hte best possible team in the ncaa tournament then why give the lower teams a chance in the conference tournament? None of you that keep quoting me are giving an answer to this.

[hapapp]

My comment wasn't a proposition as much as it is a commentary on the absurd tournament set up we have for the sole purpose of getting one of our top 4 teams in the NCAA tourney. This year is a fluke with so many 11-7 teams. If you are in one of those first games you have to win 6-7+ games in a row to win the conference. The top 4 teams have to win 2+. Thats just silly at that point. The conference is already flipping the bird to some of the 11-7 teams. South Alabama and Texas state have to win 2 extra games; App and Coastal have to win 1 extra game, as compared to Marshall. So some of those 11-7 teams you are worried about are already getting hosed.

I simply don’t see what’s absurd about the notion that your best teams get the easiest path to the NCAA Tournament

If you look at that bracket and don't see whats absurd about it I just don't know how to better explain it. If you goal, as you state, is to have your best teams in the tourney, then I bring you back to my first point that you criticized. Just have your top 4 ish teams duke it out for the tourney spot. Don't even bother with the rest of the teams. So in a way, you pretty much made my point. If you want your best teams to have the easiest path to the tourney then don't bother with a week long tourney with the lower teams. Don't bother making your best teams sit for a week and lose much of their in season moment to possibly get upset by a streaky lower team who built momentum over the last week.

The season finished with a six way tie for second, who are you going to eliminate?

How many seasons has that happened? Are we going to judge a format based on a 1 in a 10,000 chance season? Thats just silly. There are plenty of forms of tie breakes used in various pro and collegiate sports that could be used starting with head to head records and even using point differentials etc. Either way, the current format is silly. If every team is going to be in the tournament then make it a normal bracketed tournament. Not this still mess. Once again, as I've had to restate multiple times, if the goal of the conference is to put what they believe is hte best possible team in the ncaa tournament then why give the lower teams a chance in the conference tournament? None of you that keep quoting me are giving an answer to this.

Because there are more than four coaches in the Sun Belt.

[AppinVA]

One reason this format is the way it is is that the men’s and women’s tournaments are held simultaneously. You really can’t run more than four games a day, and that high school gym was sort of embarrassing. With this format, the conference can rent one facility for a week, and everyone gets a shot, whether they’ve earned one or not.

[appdaze]

I simply don’t see what’s absurd about the notion that your best teams get the easiest path to the NCAA Tournament

If you look at that bracket and don't see whats absurd about it I just don't know how to better explain it. If you goal, as you state, is to have your best teams in the tourney, then I bring you back to my first point that you criticized. Just have your top 4 ish teams duke it out for the tourney spot. Don't even bother with the rest of the teams. So in a way, you pretty much made my point. If you want your best teams to have the easiest path to the tourney then don't bother with a week long tourney with the lower teams. Don't bother making your best teams sit for a week and lose much of their in season moment to possibly get upset by a streaky lower team who built momentum over the last week.

The season finished with a six way tie for second, who are you going to eliminate?

How many seasons has that happened? Are we going to judge a format based on a 1 in a 10,000 chance season? Thats just silly. There are plenty of forms of tie breakes used in various pro and collegiate sports that could be used starting with head to head records and even using point differentials etc. Either way, the current format is silly. If every team is going to be in the tournament then make it a normal bracketed tournament. Not this still mess. Once again, as I've had to restate multiple times, if the goal of the conference is to put what they believe is hte best possible team in the ncaa tournament then why give the lower teams a chance in the conference tournament? None of you that keep quoting me are giving an answer to this.

Because there are more than four coaches in the Sun Belt.

There being 4 coaches doesn't remotely answer any question.

[Bootsy]

As someonen.jas said in the past... shoot well, you have an opportunity to win. Evidently, certain teams did not shoot well enough to beat their conference opponents during the regular season.

And hit more free throws. That can help win games. Or at least I think somebody said that.

[appdaze]

One reason this format is the way it is is that the men’s and women’s tournaments are held simultaneously. You really can’t run more than four games a day, and that high school gym was sort of embarrassing. With this format, the conference can rent one facility for a week, and everyone gets a shot, whether they’ve earned one or not.

Thank you for giving the real answer for this format. That solves that half of the equation.

[BambooRdApp]

As someonen.jas said in the past... shoot well, you have an opportunity to win. Evidently, certain teams did not shoot well enough to beat their conference opponents during the regular season.

And hit more free throws. That can help win games. Or at least I think somebody said that.

FTs do not matter. No significant impact on the outcome of a basketball game..come on now!!