South Alabama enters as the No. 1 seed in the conference, as they were undefeated against the other three teams this season to secure the tiebreaker advantage. The Jaguars were 2-0 this season against Arkansas State,

It’s like muscle memory,” SBC Commissioner Keith Gill said about being in Pensacola. “What can we add and how can we enhance the championship?”

Senior Fortuna Ngnawo posted a double-double off the bench with 19 points and 12 rebounds, while All-Sun Belt forward Zay Dyer added 16 points. The Trojans pulled down an astounding 62 rebounds (in comparison to 40 for Marshall), two off their season-high of 64 vs. Oakland in December.

Arkansas State men’s basketball led by 8 in the 2nd half, but Troy used a 15-4 run en route to a 94-81 victory in the Sun Belt Championship Game. A-State falls in the final in Pensacola for the 2nd straight season.

For the second consecutive season, the Arkansas State men’s basketball team’s dream of making the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1999 fell one game short with a loss in the championship game of the Sun Belt Tournament.

The Arkansas State men’s basketball team lost to the Troy Trojans in the finals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament Monday.

The Troy Trojans celebrate defeating Arkansas State to win the Sun Belt championship.

The No. 4 seed Arkansas State Red Wolves (24-9, 13-5 Sun Belt) take on the No. 3 Troy Trojans (22-10, 13-5 Sun Belt) in the championship game of the Sun Belt tournament on Monday at 7 p.m. ET,

Crislyn Rose scored 23 points, Mimi McCollister added 16 and Arkansas State defeated top-seeded James Madison 86-79 in overtime on Monday for the program's first Sun Belt Tournament championship, a win that clinched the school's first NCAA Tournament bid.

Win or lose, it was already a day of historic hoops for Red Wolves fans. Arkansas State University’s men’s and women’s basketball teams had never competed for a conference title on the same day. Arkansas State women’s basketball clinches Sun Belt title,