MOBILE, Ala. – University of South Alabama softball will be the two-seed at the 2016 Sun Belt Conference Tournament, which kicks off with first-round play at Jaguar Field on Wednesday.
USA (32-16) earned a bye past opening day of the event and will face the winner of No. 6 Troy/No. 7 Texas-Arlington vs. No. 3 Texas State on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. Top-seed Louisiana-Lafayette plays No. 5 Georgia Southern/No. 8 Louisiana-Monroe vs. No. 4 Georgia State at 10 a.m. Thursday.
The tournament will be conducted over four days utilizing both a single-elimination format as well as a double-elimination format to determine the SBC Tournament champion and recipient of the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.