Sun Belt Baseball Set for Conference-Opening Series

WEEK 1 CONFERENCE NOTES

NEW ORLEANS – With eight teams among the Top 100 of the RPI—led by No. 1 Southern Miss—the Sun Belt looks poised to continue its run as a multi-bid league entering conference play.

Headlining the opening weekend of conference action are a pair of Top 100 RPI matchups—Southern Miss at Arkansas State and South Alabama at Louisiana.

All 21 Sun Belt games this weekend will be broadcast nationwide on ESPN+.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR

FAMILIAR FACES – Four Sun Belt programs—No. 6 Southern Miss (1 RPI), Louisiana (14 RPI), No. 16 Coastal Carolina (56 RPI) and Troy (67 RPI) enter conference play ranked among the Top 70 in the RPI. Each has represented the conference in at least one NCAA…