Sun Belt Tournament Champions

Full list of Sun Belt Conference Tournament men’s basketball champions, including head coach, by year. Bold means team went on to win the NCAA National Championship the same year. See also: Sun Belt Regular Season Champions

Season	Champion	Head Coach
1977	Charlotte	Lee Rose
1978	New Orleans	Butch van Breda Kolff
1979	Jacksonville	Tates Locke
1980	VCU	J. D. Barnett
1981	VCU (2)	J. D. Barnett (2)
1982	UAB	Gene Bartow
1983	UAB (2)	Gene Bartow (2)
1984	UAB (3)	Gene Bartow (3)
1985	VCU (3)	J. D. Barnett (3)
1986	Jacksonville (2)	Bob Wenzel
1987	UAB (4)	Gene Bartow (4)
1988	Charlotte (2)	Jeff Mullins
1989	South Alabama	Ronnie Arrow
1990	South Florida	Bobby Paschal
1991	South Alabama (2)	Ronnie Arrow (2)
1992	Southwestern Louisiana	Marty Fletcher
1993	Western Kentucky	Ralph Willard
1994	Southwestern Louisiana (2)	Marty Fletcher (2)
1995	Western Kentucky (2)	Matt Kilcullen
1996	New Orleans (2)	Tic Price
1997	South Alabama (3)	Bill Musselman
1998	South Alabama (4)	Bob Weltlich
1999	Arkansas State	Dickey Nutt
2000	Louisiana-Lafayette (3)	Jessie Evans
2001	Western Kentucky (3)	Dennis Felton
2002	Western Kentucky (4)	Dennis Felton (2)
2003	Western Kentucky (5)	Dennis Felton (3)
2004&	vacated
2005&	vacated
2006	South Alabama (5)	John Pelphrey
2007	North Texas	Johnny Jones
2008	Western Kentucky (6)	Darrin Horn
2009	Western Kentucky (7)	Ken McDonald
2010	North Texas (2)	Johnny Jones (2)
2011	Arkansas-Little Rock	Steve Shields
2012	Western Kentucky (8)	Ray Harper
2013	Western Kentucky (9)	Ray Harper (2)
2014	Louisiana-Lafayette (4)	Bob Marlin
2015	Georgia State	Ron Hunter
2016	Little Rock (2)	Chris Beard
2017	Troy	Phil Cunningham
2018	Georgia State (2)	Ron Hunter (2)
2019	Georgia State (3)	Ron Hunter (3)
2020	tournament cancelled
2021	Appalachian State	Dustin Kerns
2022	Georgia State (4)	Rob Lanier
2023	Louisiana (5)	Bob Marlin (2)
2024	James Madison	Mark Byington
2025

& – Louisiana-Lafayette‘s 2004 and 2005 Sun Belt Tournament titles were later vacated by the NCAA

 

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