STATESBORO – The Sun Belt Conference announced the 2018-19 men's basketball schedule today, and the conference will utilize an 18-game conference schedule again this season.
 
Men's games will be played on a Thursday-Saturday schedule during the 2018-19 season, and travel partners will be used. Ten teams will make the Sun Belt Conference tournament with the top-4 seeds receiving a bye and the top-2 squads earning a double bye to the semifinals. First-round games will be played on campus sites with eight teams advancing to New Orleans and Lakefront Arena for the remainder of the tournament March 14-17. 

"It is always challenging to navigate through the Sun Belt schedule, and next year will not be any different," said Georgia Southern coach Mark Byington. "I am looking forward to taking this team through the journey and expect a lot of exciting games."

For the third straight year, each team will only travel four times for two-game road trips. 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. Teams each take just one, single-game road trip all season, and those trips will be for rivalry games.
 
Georgia Southern will play Georgia State, Louisiana, ULM, South Alabama, Texas State, Troy and UTA twice - both at home and on the road. The Eagles will play host to Arkansas State and Little Rock and travel to Appalachian State and Coastal Carolina. Georgia Southern's travel partner will continue to be Georgia State.

The Eagles open conference play on the road for the second straight season and finish with five of seven, including the last three contests, in the friendly confines of Hanner Fieldhouse. Tip times for conference games, as well as the Eagles' non-conference slate, will be announced at a later date.

Georgia Southern reached 20 wins for the second time in four years in 2017-18 and joined Louisiana and UTA as the only three Sun Belt schools to reach double-digit conference wins in each of the last four seasons. The Eagles return three starters and five lettermen to the 2018-19 team.