NEW ORLEANS –– The Sun Belt Conference announced its 2017-18 men's basketball schedule on Thursday. The conference will once again utilize an 18-game conference slate for each basketball program.
Men's games this season will revert back to a Thursday-Saturday schedule in conjuncture with the women's schedule to form doubleheaders throughout the 2017-18 season, which is similar to the 2015-16 conference campaign. Last season the men played a Saturday-Monday schedule in league play.
Both games that the Mountaineers play against Coastal Carolina are considered rivalry games and thus App State will have the Thursday prior to those games off as a bye.