The Sun Belt Conference is wrapping up its regular season schedule right about now, so there are only a few more opportunities for the teams of this league to either impress the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee or to get prepared to take the Sun Belt Championship-and thus earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Clearly there are a couple of teams which have separated themselves from the rest of the pack within the conference at this point, so let’s take a moment to analyze these teams and project what their chances are of getting to the next level. If you would like to see the thrilling conclusion to the season live, make sure you purchase some NCAA Tournament tickets online.

North Texas – The clear favorite from the Sun Belt’s Western Division, North Texas is a mean, green, free throw shooting team. North Texas is 21-8 overall and 13-5 in the Sun Belt Conference, as of March 3, 2010. This team got very hot near the end of the season. In fact, they’re currently on an eight-game winning streak, which means they haven’t lost a contest in over a month. One thing that you have to worry about with the North Texas Mean Green is that they haven’t faced much in the way of stiff competition from outside their conference. If they can get into the NCAA Tournament they’ll be a real wild card.

Troy – The Trojans from Troy are atop the Eastern Division of the Sun Belt Conference with a record of 18-11 overall and 13-5 in the league. While they have a good shot at winning the conference title and getting the automatic bid from the Sun Belt, they’re really not shoe-ins for an at-large bid to the Tourney. Still, this team is hot right now, bringing with them a five-game winning streak into the postseason. One of this team’s biggest wins came against Auburn in the beginning of December. Can they replicate that David-like, giant-slaying quality about them in the first round of the NCAA Tournament-assuming they make it there?

Other Hopefuls – Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky both have the goods to land themselves in the NCAA Tournament, but they’re both long shots, dark horses who might end up in the NIT or some other end-of-season college basketball tournament. Western Kentucky is no stranger to the Dance, and once there they seem to always put on a show and pull off an upset.

The Sun Belt Conference has been putting on a show all season long, and this end of the basketball season is going to be even better. So why not head out Tadalis SX to your local arena and catch a game or two at the tail end of the year? Or, if you can get to an NCAA Tournament game, Cialis you might want to check out some real March Madness. Root for the Sun Belt Conference team to go far in the tourney, no matter which team or teams make it into the NCAA Tournament.

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