Together We Rise
The Sun Belt is in a class of its own as a mid-major basketball league. It is the only mid-major conference that had both a first-round pick in the 2014 and 2015 NBA Drafts while also having a team win a game in the 2015 and 2016 NCAA Tournaments. Below is a list of conferences that accomplished both of those feats: ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, PAC-12, SEC, Sun Belt
Cinderella Lives Here
Little Rock’s thrilling 85-83 double-overtime win against No. 5 seed Purdue in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last year made it a second year in a row a team from the Sun Belt shocked a top-seeded team.