Sunbelt basketball is meaningless
Will there be a single at-large bid out of the Sunbelt? If not, then the entire season is basically pointless, and boils down to who can get hot or catch a couple breaks in the conference tournament. That's not worth $13 a beer and $7 popcorn
If by some random chance we steal the tournament and win the auto-bid, everyone expects us to be a #13 seed who tries reeeeaaaalll hard but ultimately hangs another banner in the "almost big win" trophy case