sunbelt conference basketball tournament results

24 after winning the Big 12 Tournament.įalling out of the Top 25 are Kentucky, South Carolina and Connecticut. 17 after winning the Sun Belt Tournament. Southern Miss, Alabama and TCU all move into the Top 25. 2, with Vanderbilt, Clemson and Arkansas rounding out the top five. While the Demon Deacons were knocked out of the ACC Tournament in the semifinals, they still went 2-1 on the week and lead the nation in wins and winning percentage.įlorida remains No. This is the fourth straight week that Wake has been No. 1 in this week’s Baseball America Top 25, which is the last of the regular season. Patrick Bernadeau is a sports reporter for the Pensacola News Journal.Wake Forest remains No. The Dukes advanced with a 61-43 triumph over No. The Monarchs (22-11) play top-seeded James Madison at 11:30 a.m. Walton added 10 points while Navarre native Amber Leggett scored 10 of her 12 points in the fourth.įormer PSC forward Tai’Sheka Porchia contributed nine points for the Trojans, who ended the season with a 17-13 record. Making 12 of 24 field-goal attempts, Hallmon led Troy with 26 points. She also added team-bests of nine rebounds and two blocks. Young led Old Dominion with a game-high 29 points on 13-for-21 shooting from the field. The Trojans had a chance to take the lead with six seconds left, but a go-ahead jump shot from Makayia Hallmon was off the mark. The Trojans dominated the fourth quarter after scoring 17 points off 10 Monarch turnovers while not coughing up the ball once. 4 Troy nearly pulled off a miraculous comeback. 5 seed, led by as much as 67-49 late in the third quarter before No. “No one wants a game to end this way-especially during the postseason.” “I apologize to head coach Chanda Rigby, the Troy women’s basketball student-athletes and the Troy community for the manner in which the end of the game was officiated,” Sun Belt Conference commissioner Keith Gill. The Sun Belt Conference acknowledged the mistake in a statement released nearly three hours after the game concluded. As a penalty, the officiating crew involved in the non-call will not receive another assignment for the remainder of the tournament. 'I really was just trying to contest it, but it just happened to be a block. 'When I saw (Walton) open, I got long arms, so I just extended my arms and prayed,' Young said. With 2.1 seconds left, the Trojans had a chance to send the game into overtime, but Jada Walton’s game-tying 3-pointer was blocked by Young. More: UWF Women’s Basketball Continues Surge With Tourney Win I want them to leave with a great impression of this tournament, of being a Troy Trojan, and it’s hard to find the words when that happened.”Ĭollege Basketball: Third year in Pensacola shaping well for Sun Belt Conference tournaments I do want everybody to know what happened … It’s very hard for me to go in and explain that to them. “I don’t want it to look bad on this tournament, but I do want to fight for these girls. “Strange things happen in basketball and officiating. “We covered everybody perfectly that we could, but there was one person wide open because there was an extra person out there,” said Trojans head coach Chanda Rigby, who formerly coached at Pensacola State College. The Monarchs emerged with a 86-83 victory from the Pensacola Bay Center.

Old Dominion scored at the end of their Sun Belt Tournament win over Troy today because they had six players on the court and the refs didn't catch it /Et62182jef

Sunbelt conference basketball tournament results