{"id":21,"date":"2016-03-09T12:19:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/2016-sun-belt-tournament-preview\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T18:53:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T00:53:53","slug":"2016-sun-belt-tournament-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/2016-sun-belt-tournament-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Sun Belt tournament preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sun Belt Conference<br \/>\nMarch 10-13. All games at New Orleans.<br \/>\nkPOY: Shawn Long, Louisiana Lafayette.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Sun Belt tournament begins on Thursday with two first-round games at Lakefront Arena.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Sun Belt fancies itself the #FunBelt for this event, but then the conference went ahead and uninvited its three worst teams and will put its top eight in a double-stepladder bracket. What\u2019s fun about that? It\u2019s not fun, but it is fair, giving regular-season champion Little Rock a nice advantage. The Trojans were the nation\u2019s only three-loss team until a final game defeat at 8-22 Appalachian State.<\/p>\n<pre>                         Qtrs Semis Final Champ\r\n 1 Arkansas Little Rock   100   100  73.0  48.9\r\n 3 UT Arlington           100  74.8  44.9  20.2\r\n 2 Louisiana Monroe       100   100  46.7  16.9\r\n 4 Louisiana Lafayette    100  72.4  22.7  10.9\r\n 6 Georgia St.           56.0  15.2   5.4   1.3\r\n 5 Georgia Southern      63.5  20.0   3.4   1.0\r\n 7 Texas St.             44.0  10.0   3.0   0.6\r\n 8 South Alabama         36.5   7.7   0.8   0.2\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><u><strong>Sun Belt tourney records (since 1999)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<pre>Georgia St.           3- 1\r\nLouisiana Lafayette  18-13\r\nGeorgia Southern      1- 1\r\nTexas St.             1- 1\r\nSouth Alabama        14-15\r\nArkansas St.         13-15\r\nArkansas Little Rock 12-16\r\nTroy                  5- 9\r\nUT Arlington          1- 2\r\nLouisiana Monroe      3- 8\r\nAppalachian St.       0- 0<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Belt Conference March 10-13. All games at New Orleans. kPOY: Shawn Long, Louisiana Lafayette. The Sun Belt tournament begins on Thursday with two first-round games at Lakefront Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}