NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference announced the 2016-17 men's and women's basketball schedules on Thursday. The conference will utilize an 18-game conference schedule for each men's and women's basketball program.
Men's basketball games will be played on a Saturday-Monday schedule and women's basketball games will be played on a Thursday-Saturday schedule during the 2016-17 season. The dates of play will reverse for the 2017-18 season with the men's basketball games being played on Thursdays and Saturdays and women's basketball games being played on Saturdays and Mondays.
"This is an exciting time for the Sun Belt Conference as we have created a membership structure that makes perfect sense with six sets of travel partners located in seven states," Sun Belt Conference commissioner Karl Benson said.