Troy performed better in the conference (11-7 to 9-9). They’re the only teams outside the top four with a greater than 5% chance of taking down the March Madness berth. Outside of the top four, the market views South Alabama and Troy as a bit stronger than the other down-ballot options.
By contrast, the bottom four teams - Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Texas State, and Georgia State - must win two additional games to get there. The top four finishers receive direct seeding into the quarterfinals of the tournament bracket. Patrick Bernadeau is a sports reporter for the Pensacola News Journal.The Sun Belt tournament greatly rewards its top regular season teams. The Dukes advanced with a 61-43 triumph over No. The Monarchs (22-11) play top-seeded James Madison at 11:30 a.m. Walton added 10 points while Navarre native Amber Leggett scored 10 of her 12 points in the fourth.įormer PSC forward Tai’Sheka Porchia contributed nine points for the Trojans, who ended the season with a 17-13 record. Making 12 of 24 field-goal attempts, Hallmon led Troy with 26 points. She also added team-bests of nine rebounds and two blocks. Young led Old Dominion with a game-high 29 points on 13-for-21 shooting from the field. The Trojans had a chance to take the lead with six seconds left, but a go-ahead jump shot from Makayia Hallmon was off the mark. The Trojans dominated the fourth quarter after scoring 17 points off 10 Monarch turnovers while not coughing up the ball once. 4 Troy nearly pulled off a miraculous comeback. 5 seed, led by as much as 67-49 late in the third quarter before No. “No one wants a game to end this way-especially during the postseason.” “I apologize to head coach Chanda Rigby, the Troy women’s basketball student-athletes and the Troy community for the manner in which the end of the game was officiated,” Sun Belt Conference commissioner Keith Gill. The Sun Belt Conference acknowledged the mistake in a statement released nearly three hours after the game concluded. As a penalty, the officiating crew involved in the non-call will not receive another assignment for the remainder of the tournament. "I really was just trying to contest it, but it just happened to be a block. "When I saw (Walton) open, I got long arms, so I just extended my arms and prayed," Young said. With 2.1 seconds left, the Trojans had a chance to send the game into overtime, but Jada Walton’s game-tying 3-pointer was blocked by Young. More: UWF Women’s Basketball Continues Surge With Tourney Win I want them to leave with a great impression of this tournament, of being a Troy Trojan, and it’s hard to find the words when that happened.”Ĭollege Basketball: Third year in Pensacola shaping well for Sun Belt Conference tournaments
I do want everybody to know what happened … It’s very hard for me to go in and explain that to them. “I don’t want it to look bad on this tournament, but I do want to fight for these girls. “Strange things happen in basketball and officiating. “We covered everybody perfectly that we could, but there was one person wide open because there was an extra person out there,” said Trojans head coach Chanda Rigby, who formerly coached at Pensacola State College. The Monarchs emerged with a 86-83 victory from the Pensacola Bay Center. Old Dominion scored at the end of their Sun Belt Tournament win over Troy today because they had six players on the court and the refs didn't catch it /Et62182jef
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