Sun Belt Sports Fans

(2) North Texas 63, (6) Denver 56
It wasn’t very hard to identify the dominant theme of Semifinal Monday at the 2010 Sun Belt Conference Tournament in Hot Springs, Ark. The team that defends better for a longer period of time will win, especially if it can lock down the opposition in a game’s most meaningful minutes.
In the night’s first semifinal at Summit Arena, top-seeded Troy overcame extended periods of offensive ineptitude and advanced to the Sun Belt final by shutting out Western Kentucky in the game’s final four minutes and …

(1) Troy 54, (4) Western Kentucky 48
Baskets came at a premium Monday night in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament‘s semifinal round. Fortunately for the Troy Trojans, the team with the last drought lost.
It has to be really weird for a basketball club to score 16 points in the second half and win, but that’s exactly the scenario that greeted the regular-season champion of the Sun Belt. Coach Don Maestri has seen a lot of basketball in his 28 years as Troy’s head coach, so while the quality of play at …