{"id":509211,"date":"2026-02-28T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:11:14","slug":"basketball-seeded-no-13-in-sbc-championship-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509211\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Seeded No. 13 in SBC Championship Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 ATLANTA\u2014The Panthers have solidified a No. 13 \u00a0seed in the Sun Belt Basketball tournament, as announced by the Sun Belt Conference.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGeorgia State will face No. 12 Louisiana in game one\u00a0of the Sun Belt tournament on Tuesday, March 3 at 6:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers and Ragin&#8217; Cajuns are meeting for the 29th time in program history and the 25th time in Sun Belt action and the second time this season. \u00a0A long-standing series dating back to the 2004-05 season, the Panthers lead the series 19-9, including a 17-6 record in conference play, and are 4-1 against Louisiana in the Sun Belt tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Visit Pensacola Sun Belt Basketball Championship will take place Tuesday, March 3-9 at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Fla., with all 14 conference institutions competing in the single-elimination tournament.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAll games will be broadcast on ESPN+ with the championship game televised by ESPN2. Local radio coverage on WRAS-FM 88.5 and\/or WGTJ-FM 97.5 and the GSU athletics app.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTickets for the tournament are available for purchase on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/sun-belt-basketball-tournament-tickets\/artist\/137963?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ticketmaster<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor more informational bout the 2026 Visit Pensacola Sun Belt Basketball Championship, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sunbeltsports.org\/sports\/2025\/7\/7\/mbb-champ-2026.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0or visit sunbeltsports.org.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2026 MBB Championship Bracket\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026_Sun_Belt_MBB_Bracket.png\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" width=\"792\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; ATLANTA\u2014The Panthers have solidified a No. 13 \u00a0seed in the Sun Belt Basketball tournament,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-509211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}