[Cactus Jack]

An update on South Alabama/Richie Riley. The Sun Belt has finished their regular season, South Alabama was in a four-way tie for first at 13-5 with Troy, James Madison and Arkansas St., but the tiebreaker went to South Alabama. They will be the one seed for the conference tournament, and because of the wild way the Sun Belt seeds their tournament (trust me, look at the bracket if you get a chance) South Alabama will only have to get two wins to win it and make the NCAA field. They will play next Sunday, then if they win that one, the championship game is next Monday night on ESPN 2.

Looked up the bracket. I'd forgotten how that was set up. The more I thought about it, the more I can see why a mid-major would want to do that. Protects their top seeds and probably gives them the best chance at getting an additional bid. Guessing that most of the schools in the conference being heavily geared toward football didn't hurt the negotiations or process for getting this implemented either.