Sun Belt Conference Declares 2025-26 Males’s Basketball Conference Schedule

NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference and App State Men’s Basketball introduced the 2025-26 convention slate Thursday. The 18-game schedule options 9 video games on the Holmes Convocation Center, the place the Mountaineers personal a 25-4 report because the begin of the 2023-24 season.
 
App State is about to open Sun Belt play by internet hosting Coastal Carolina on Thursday, Dec. 18. That date ties the earliest begin to convention play for the Mountaineers within the Sun Belt period, after App State additionally tipped off Sun Belt play on Dec. 18 a yr in the past.
 
Following the convention opener, the Mountaineers will host Georgia State on Saturday, Dec. 20, earlier than taking part in a season-high 4 straight video games on the street. That stretch will embrace stops at Old Dominion (Dec. 31), Marshall (Jan. 3), Georgia State (Jan. 8) and Coastal Carolina (Jan. 10).
 
Once play concludes in Conway, S.C., App State will begin a four-game homestand on Jan. 15 by welcoming James Madison to the Holmes Center. Two days later, the Mountaineers will host ODU (Jan. 17) earlier than wrapping up the homestand with Louisiana (Jan. 22) and ULM (Jan. 24).
 
Continuing a five-game stretch towards Sun Belt West colleges, App State will hit the street for video games at Southern Miss (Jan. 29) and Troy (Jan. 31). The Mountaineers will then host South Alabama on Wednesday, Feb. 4, marking the Jaguars’ first go to to Boone since Feb. 19, 2022.
 
A short convention hiatus follows the competition with South Alabama, because the Mountaineers will host a MAC opponent on Saturday, Feb. 7, as a part of the MAC-SBC Challenge, which additionally features a Nov. 3 street sport towards Central Michigan to start the season.
 
Road video games at Georgia Southern (Feb. 11) and James Madison (Feb. 14) precede the ultimate two house video games on the 2025-26 schedule. App State’s house schedule concludes with Marshall on Thursday, Feb. 19, and Georgia Southern on Saturday, Feb. 21.
 
The Mountaineers wrap up the common season in San Marcos, Texas, for a duel with Texas State on Feb. 27.
 
Following the motion in San Marcos, the Mountaineers will head to the Pensacola Bay Center in Florida for the Sun Belt Tournament, which begins March 3.
 
App State enters the 2025-26 season with back-to-back 10-win campaigns in convention play, marking the primary time it has performed so because the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons. Additionally, since 2019, App State owns probably the most regular-season convention wins of any group within the Sun Belt with 65. That mark is three away from the following closest groups (South Alabama and Troy with 62 apiece).
 
The 2025-26 group returns seven gamers from final yr’s roster and welcomes 5 collegiate transfers and 4 freshmen. App State has posted six consecutive seasons with a profitable proportion of .500 or higher, marking the primary six-year stretch of profitable basketball within the High Country since 1946-52.
 
App State Men’s Basketball 2025-26 Conference Schedule
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