2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for Sun Belt Conference during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Tournament first round, second round, and quarterfinal games were played at the campus sites of the higher seeded team between March 7–11. The semifinals and championship game would have been held from March 14–15, 2020, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Smoothie King Center. The regular season champion will receive the Sun Belt's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

Only the top 10 of the 12 conference teams will qualify for the tournament. The No. 5 and No. 6 seeds will receive and first round bye, the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds receive a double bye to the quarterfinals, while the No. 1 and No. 2 seeded teams receive a triple bye to the semifinals. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker
1Little Rock15–5
2South Alabama13–71–0 vs. Texas State
3Texas State13–70–1 vs. South Alabama
4Georgia State12–81–0 vs. Little Rock
5Georgia Southern12–80–1 vs. Little Rock
6Appalachian State11–9
7UT Arlington10–10
8Louisiana8–122–1 vs. Arkansas State/Coastal Carolina
9Arkansas State8–122–2 vs. Georgia State/Georgia Southern
10Coastal Carolina8–121–3 vs. Georgia State/Georgia Southern

Schedule

Bracket