Men's Basketball | 4/28/2016 5:05:00 PM

Men's Sun Belt Schedule | Women's Sun Belt Schedule

NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference announced the 2016-17 men's and women's basketball schedules on Thursday, and the conference will utilize an 18-game conference schedule for each men's and women's basketball program.

Men's games will be played on a Saturday-Monday schedule and women's 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 games being played on Thursdays and Saturdays and women's basketball being played on Saturdays and Mondays.

The 2016-17 season will be the first with Coastal Carolina as a full member of the conference. All 12 men's and women's basketball teams will travel to the 2017 Sun Belt Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Championships as the tournaments return to New Orleans and Lakefront Arena for a fourth consecutive season.

Each team will only travel four times for two-game road trips during the upcoming season. Travel partners will be utilized for two-game road trips throughout the conference schedule to maximize rest, minimize travel times and limit missed class time for student-athletes. Men's and women's basketball programs will each take just one, single-game road trip all season, and those trips will be for rivalry games.

Both Georgia Southern basketball teams will play Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, ULM, UL Lafayette, South Alabama and Troy twice - both at home and on the road. The Eagles will play host to Texas State and UT Arlington and travel to Little Rock and Arkansas State.

Tip times for conference games will also be announced at a later date.

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