Louisiana claimed the Sun Belt Championship 7 days ago by the slimmest of margins, besting our Carroll County High alum and her team 1-0. Marshall came into the 3 day event being told if you want an invite to the Dance 💃 you better run the table.
Marshall took care of business in the first two but fell in the title game to finish up at 45-10. The Sun Belt was limited to just 2 bids while it seemed like the entire Southeastern Conference was invited.
Louisiana was hoping by winning the league tournament they would be one of the 16 Schools to host a Regional but they too were dismissed a bit as they were sent to play at #10 seeded Louisiana State which meant they fell to the #23 spot in the field.
The gap between hoping you make the Top 16 and coming in at 23 is a pretty large descepency. The only upside of the placement was the short trek to Baton Rouge.
On Sunday afternoon the Cajuns struck a blow for the Sun Belt and all of its teams by taking a pair of thrilling games from the Tigers 🐅. Louisiana will now travel out to Seattle to face the #7 seeded University of Washington Huskies.
It also means that both the Sun Belt and Mountain West (San Diego State) will send the same number of teams as the Big Ten.
The shocking upsets that #2 UCLA suffered in its first two games at home 🏡 didn’t prevent the Pac 12 from being the only league to claim four of the 16 spots in the Super Regionals this coming weekend.
The ACC, SEC and the Big 12 each will have three teams hoping to make the trip out to Oklahoma City next month.
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