Recent conventional wisdom dictates that the Sun Belt Conference is a one-bid league for the NCAA tournament on both men’s and women’s side in basketball, meaning all four South Alabama and Troy teams are in win-or-go-home mode this week.

The Sun Belt Conference men’s and women’s basketball tournaments begin this week at Pensacola (Fla.) Bay Center, with the play-in rounds beginning Tuesday. South Alabama’s women (9-22) are the No. 14 (and last) seed and face No. 11 Coastal Carolina at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

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The other three teams all have a bit of rest. South Alabama’s men (16-15) are the No. 8 seed and face No. 9 Georgia Southern in a second-round game at 11:30 a.m. Thursday.

Troy’s women (19-10) are the No. 2 seed and don’t play until Friday’s quarterfinals. Chanda Rigsby’s Trojans face the winner of No. 7 Louisiana and No. 10 Arkansas State at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.

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Troy’s men (20-11) are the No. 3 seed and get a bye all the way until Saturday. Scott Cross’ Trojans will face a to-be-determined opponent (Southern Miss, Old Dominion or Texas State) at 5 p.m. Saturday.

The Trojan men have their highest seed in the Sun Belt tournament since 2010, when they won the regular-season championship and lost to North Texas in the tournament final. Troy lost in the first round of the NIT to Ole Miss that year.

Troy has won the Sun Belt tournament twice, in 2003 under Don Maestri and in 2017 under Phil Cunningham. That 2017 team came in the conference tournament as a 6-seed, and later lost to Duke in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Since that tournament championship in 2017, Troy has advanced to the semifinals just once. The 2022 team, the No. 4 seed, beat Little Rock in the quarterfinals before falling to 8th-seeded Louisiana in the semis.

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Last year’s Troy team was the No. 5 seed and beat Arkansas State in a second-round game before losing to James Madison in the quarterfinals. This year’s Trojans won 20 games for the third straight year, a first for the program since the Division II glory days under Maestri in the early 1990s.

South Alabama’s men are the same 8-seed they were a year ago, when they beat Appalachian State, Southern Miss and James Madison in succession before falling to 2-seed Louisiana 71-66 in the championship game. The Jaguars last won the conference tournament in 2006; they last appeared in the NCAA tournament in 2008, when they were regular-season champions and received an at-large NCAA bid.

Riley’s teams have won at least one tournament game three times in his five years, the exceptions being 2020 (when the Jaguars were the 2-seed and the tournament was canceled due to COVID before they played their first game) and 2022 (when fifth-seeded USA lost to Little Rock in the first round). South Alabama reached the quarterfinals as the 8-seed in 2019 and the second round in 2021.

Troy’s women won the conference tournament under Rigsby in 2016, 2017 and 2021 and were the favorite in 2020 when the tournament was halted after the quarterfinal round due to COVID. The Trojans were regular-season champions in 2022, but lost to second-seeded UT-Arlington in the championship game and earned a WNIT bid (losing to Alabama in the first round).

Last year’s season ended in even more disappointing fashion for Troy, which lost to No. 5 seed Old Dominion 86-83 in the quarterfinals. That game’s finish was marred by an incomprehensible no-call, when ODU had six players on the court while scoring its winning basket.

South Alabama’s women have never won the Sun Belt tournament, and last reached the conference finals in 2019. The Jaguars have made just one NCAA tournament appearance, as an at-large team after winning the Sun Belt regular season championship in 1987.

A win for first-year coach Yolisha Jackson’s Jaguars on Tuesday would put them in a second-round game vs. No. 6 Southern Miss at 5 p.m. Wednesday.