The 2025 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for Sun Belt Conference during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All tournament games were played at Pensacola Bay Center between March 4–10, 2025. The winner, Troy, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA tournament.
Seeds All fourteen conference teams qualified for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a procedural tiebreaker system set to seed teams with identical conference records. The conference adopted a unique stepladder system giving the top two teams byes to the tournament semifinals and the No. 3 and No. 4 teams byes to the tournament quarterfinals. The conference changed the tournament format in an effort to reward teams that played well during the regular season. The top ten teams received at least one bye. SeedSchoolConferenceRecordTiebreaker1Tiebreaker2Tiebreaker3Tiebreaker41South Alabama13–54–1 vs. JMU/Troy/ARST2James Madison13–52–1 vs. USA/Troy/ARST2–0 vs. Troy/ARST3Troy13–52–3 vs. USA/JMU/ARST1–2 vs. JMU/ARST1–1 vs. ARST1-2 vs. USA/JMU4Arkansas State13–51–4 vs. USA/JMU/Troy1–2 vs. JMU/Troy1–1 vs. Troy0–3 vs. USA/JMU5Marshall12–66Appalachian State10–87Texas State9–98Georgia State8–104–1 vs. GASO/ODU/UL1–1 vs. Marshall9Georgia Southern8–104–1 vs. GSU/ODU/UL0–2 vs. Marshall3–0 vs. ODU/UL10Old Dominion8–101–4 vs. GSU/GASO/UL1–2 vs. GASO/UL1–0 vs. UL11Louisiana8–100–3 vs. GSU/GASO/ODU0–2 vs. GASO/ODU0–1 vs. ODU12 Southern Miss5–1313Coastal Carolina3–151–0 vs. ULM14Louisiana–Monroe3–150–1 vs. CCU
Schedule GameTime MatchupScoreTelevisionFirst round – Tuesday, March 4 15:00 pmNo. 12 Southern Miss vs. No. 13 Coastal Carolina66–63ESPN+27:30 pmNo. 11 Louisiana vs. No. 14 Louisiana–Monroe73–69 Second round – Wednesday, March 5 35:00 pmNo. 9 Georgia Southern vs. No. 12 Southern Miss78–64ESPN+47:30 pmNo. 10 Old Dominion vs. No. 11 Louisiana67–49Third round – Thursday, March 6 55:00 pmNo. 8 Georgia State vs. No. 9 Georgia Southern80–71ESPN+67:30 pmNo. 7 Texas State vs. No. 10 Old Dominion61–64Fourth round – Friday, March 775:00 pmNo. 5 Marshall vs. No. 8 Georgia State79–76ESPN+87:30 pmNo. 6 Appalachian State vs. No. 10 Old Dominion56–61Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 8 95:30 pmNo. 4 Arkansas State vs. No. 5 Marshall77–74ESPN+108:00 pmNo. 3 Troy vs. No. 10 Old Dominion75–59Semifinals – Sunday, March 9 115:00 pmNo. 1 South Alabama vs. No. 4 Arkansas State71–74ESPN+127:30 pmNo. 2 James Madison vs. No. 3 Troy60–79Championship – Monday, March 10 136:00 pmNo. 4 Arkansas State vs. No. 3 Troy81–94ESPN2Game times in CST through the quarterfinals and CDT for the semifinals and championship. Rankings denote tournament seed.
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Game summaries All times are in CT (UTC−6 from March 4 through 8 and UTC−5 on March 9 and 10) First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Championship
Awards and honors Tournament MVP: Tayton Conerway, Troy
SBC All-Tournament Team Tayton Conerway, Troy Thomas Dowd, Troy Terrance Ford Jr., Arkansas State Izaiyah Nelson, Arkansas State Obinna Anochili-Killen, Marshall Sean Durugordon, Old Dominion
See also 2025 Sun Belt Conference women's basketball tournament
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