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Checking in on… the Sun Belt

jstevrtc — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:47:27 +0000

Laura Hathaway of the Clarion is the RTC correspondent for the Sun Belt Conference.

Current Standings

East Division (conf/overall/streak)

Troy (4-1/9-7/W1) Middle Tennessee (3-1/8-8/W1) Western Kentucky (2-1/9-5/L1) South Alabama (3-2/11-6/L2) Florida Atlantic (3-2/7-9/W2) Florida International (2-4/5-14/L1)

West Division (conf/overall/streak)

Denver (5-1/12-5/W2) Arkansas State (4-1/9-7/W2) North Texas (3-3/10-6/W1) Louisiana-Lafayette (2-2/5-10/W1) Louisiana-Monroe (1-5/6-11/L2) New Orleans (1-5/6-11/L2) Arkansas-Little Rock (0-5/4-12/L7)

News and Notes

South Alabama junior Tim Williams was the Sun Belt Conference player of the week, and he deserved it after leading the Jaguars to three road victories and averaging 20.7 points [...]

Checking In On… the Sun Belt

jstevrtc — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:42:36 +0000

Laura Hathaway of the Clarion is the RTC correspondent for the Sun Belt Conference.

Current Standings:

East Division

South Alabama (5-2) Troy (3-2) Middle Tennessee (3-3) Western Kentucky (2-2) Florida Atlantic (2-3) Florida International (2-5)

West Division

North Texas (3-1) Denver (3-1) Arkansas State (3-1) New Orleans (3-1) University of Louisiana-Monroe (3-3) Louisiana-Lafayette (1-2) University of Arkansas-Little Rock (1-4)

Conference play has not started in the Sun Belt and most teams have played around five games. Heading into the second full weekend of match-ups, no teams in the conference are undefeated. Nine of the 13 teams in the conference, however, have a winning percentage of .500 [...]

2009-10 Conference Primers: #20 – Sun Belt

rtmsf — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:14:03 +0000

Matt Poindexter is a regular RTC contributor.

Predicted Order of Finish:

East

Western Kentucky (17-1) Troy (14-4) Middle Tennessee (11-7) Florida Atlantic (6-12) South Alabama (5-13) Florida International (2-16)

West

North Texas (15-3) Denver (12-6) Arkansas-Little Rock (11-7) Louisiana-Lafayette (9-9) Louisiana-Monroe (8-10) Arkansas State (5-13) New Orleans (2-16)

All-Conference Team:

A.J. Slaughter (G) – Western Kentucky Nate Rohnert (G) – Denver Desmond Yates (F) – Middle Tennessee Rudy Turner (F) – Louisiana-Monroe Jeremy Evans (C) – Western Kentucky

6th Man: Brandon Hazzard (G) – Troy

Impact Newcomer: Isiah Thomas. Usually, this is where we pick out the best incoming freshman or transfer in the conference. But for the first [...]

RTC 2009-10 Impact Players: Mid-South Region

rtmsf — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:05:20 +0000

Ed. Note: the previous posts in this series (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Atlantic South and Deep South) are located here.

It’s time for the fifth installment of our RTC 2009-10 Impact Players series, the group of landlocked states that produce some really good basketball players – the Mid-South. Each week we’ll pick a geographic area of the country and break down the five players who we feel will have the most impact on their teams (and by the transitive property, college basketball) this season. Our criteria is once again subjective – there are so many good [...]

Sun Belt Wrapup & Tourney Preview

rtmsf — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:54:24 +0000

Rick Henderson of The Owl’s Nest is the RTC correspondent for the Sun Belt Conference.

Final Results Are In

A couple things were expected. And a lot was not. WKU sitting out the first round is no shocker. UALR atop the West was expected as well. But MTSU was expected to do a lot better. Additionally, who would have “thunk” that head coaches Mike Jarvis and John Brady would finish at the bottom of their respective divisions and as 12th and 13th seeds? Wow. Lastly, how does Troy, a team that actually was picked [...]

2008-09 Season Primers: #18 – Sun Belt

rtmsf — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:06:49 +0000

Rick Henderson of The Owl’s Nest is the RTC correspondent for the Sun Belt conference.

Predicted Order of Finish:

East

Middle Tennessee (19-11, 13-5) Western Kentucky (18-11, 12-6) South Alabama (18-11, 11-7) Florida Atlantic (17-14, 10-8) Florida International (15 -16, 8-10) Troy (12-20, 5-13)

West

Arkansas-Little Rock (17-9, 12-6) North Texas (16-13, 10-8) Louisiana-Lafayette (15-14, 10-8) Arkansas State (14-15, 8-10) Denver (12-17, 7-11) Louisiana-Monroe (15-14, 7-11) New Orleans (11-19, 4-14)

WYN2K. The Belt took a step forward last season with the NCAA Tourney appearance of South Alabama, and the deep run of Western Kentucky into the Sweet 16, jumping from 17 to 14 in the RPI rankings. Accordingly, recruiting is on the way up all around. [...]