![]() ![]() Three college football heavyweights were knocked out by Sun Belt teams they had never played before, in front of a combined live audience of 257,008 mostly-stunned partisans. "When I got back to my hotel and I’m watching 'College Football Final' on ESPN, they led with the Sun Belt. "It’s incredible when you think about it," he was saying Monday. There he was, racing back to his hotel room to try to put the amazing day in some perspective. There he was, munching on late dinner in a restaurant parking lot while trying to watch Georgia Southern finish off Nebraska on his phone. ![]() There he was, driving up Interstate 35 in Texas trying to find Appalachian State-Texas A&M on his car radio, and listening to play-by-play from Marshall-Notre Dame on his phone. If you thought the internet was on fire Saturday trying to keep up with all the Sun Belt upsets, you should have seen Keith Gill. Recapping Week 2: Alabama survives, while Notre Dame and TAMU fall ![]() Meanwhile, the commissioner of the Sun Belt has been having a grand time. Jimbo Fisher issuing painful mea culpas at Texas A&M, after the Aggies were taken down by Appalachian State. Notre Dame booted from the Top 25, after the Irish were shocked by Marshall. The coach at Nebraska fired, after the Cornhuskers fell to Georgia Southern. Georgia Southern plays the winner between Arkansas State and ULM on Thursday with the survivor playing Southern Miss.ĭavid Eckert covers Ole Miss for the Clarion Ledger.Just look at what the Sun Belt left in its wake following a remarkable football weekend. Third-seeded Southern Miss will begin Sun Belt Tournament play, also in Pensacola, on Friday at 5 p.m. The Lady Eagles (20-9, 13-5) won their final five regular-season games to share the top spot in the standings with Texas State and James Madison. Now he's Southern Miss basketball's engineĪustin Crowley and Felipe Haase, the two primary figures of coach Jay Ladner's nine-transfer rebuild, led the Golden Eagles in scoring, with Haase potting 26 and Crowley adding 17 points. LOTT: He's the heart and soul of Southern Miss football - and it's time you met himĬARDONA: Juan Cardona lived in his car for two months. PROVING THEM WRONG: Where Southern Miss basketball teams rank in Sun Belt preseason polls in the quarterfinals against the Appalachian State and South Alabama winner.īy winning the regular season conference title, the Golden Eagles have already secured a spot if needed in the NIT Tournament. The Golden Eagles won't play until March 4 at 11:30 a.m. 1 seed for the conference tournament in Pensacola, Florida, as it chases an NCAA Tournament bid. The Golden Eagles (25-6, 14-4 SBC) entered Friday tied with Marshall in the standings, but the Thundering Herd lost at Old Dominion. Meanwhile, the Southern Miss women won a share of the Sun Belt title with a 69-64 victory at Louisiana in overtime on Friday night. Southern Miss men's basketball, coming off a 1-17 season in Conference USA, clinched the Sun Belt Conference championship in its first season as a member of the conference with a 79-69 victory at Texas State on Friday night. The biggest turnaround in college basketball this season has been sealed with a ring. View Gallery: Jay Ladner: A look at the Southern Miss men's basketball head coach ![]()
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