Belmont Vision - Sports - Women No.1 in regular season

ISSUE: 02/28/07 > sports > women no.1 in regular season

Thanks to a four-game winning streak, the Belmont women’s basketball team (21-5, 15-1 A-Sun) wrapped up the outright 2006-07 Atlantic Sun regular season title. The Bruins earned the No. 1 seed in the upcoming A-Sun Conference Tournament March 8-10 in Dothan, Ala., with their 54-51 Senior Night win Feb. 24 against Gardner-Webb. This season marks the third time the Bruins have won the A-Sun regular season title in four years.

Last season, the Bruins were regular season champions and the No. 1 seed but were upset in the semifinal round against Gardner-Webb 72-60 after posting a 17-3 regular season conference record. In the 2003-2004 season, the Bruins won the regular season title with a conference record of 14-6 but were upset by Stetson in the tournament.

Getting There

The Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament is held March 8-10 at the Dothan Civic Center in Dothan, Ala. Belmont’s women will play the No. 8 seed on the first day of the tournament.

This season, Belmont has posted its best regular season conference record in school history with 15 wins and one loss. Barring an upset by Jacksonville or North Florida in the final regular season games, the Bruins will go into the conference tournament at 23-5 (17-1 A-Sun).

Head coach Tony Cross came into this season with a new mission and a look at the big picture. “We’ve got some things that we are preparing just for the tournament – a new offense, a couple different defenses. We call it the tournament package. This will give other teams something that they will have to attest to.”