NEW ORLEANS – Courtside and floor reserved all-session ticket packages for the 2026 Visit Pensacola Sun Belt Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships presented by Air Force Reserve will go on sale at 10 a.m. ET/9 a.m. CT on Wednesday, Oct. 29. 
 
Both courtside and floor reserved all-session ticket packages include access to the Courtside Club, featuring unlimited food and drink throughout the tournament. Secure your floor seat by Sunday, Nov. 30, to roll back the clock and lock in last year’s pricing. 
 
In partnership with Pensacola Sports and Visit Pensacola, this year’s tournaments will take place from March 3-9, 2026, with all tournament games being played at the Pensacola Bay Center. 
 
The city of Pensacola, Fla., will host the 2026-2030 Visit Pensacola Sun Belt Basketball Championships presented by Air Force Reserve, building upon the league’s initial five-year agreement that brought the championships to Pensacola from 2021-2025. During that span, the Sun Belt has grown from 12 to 14 members and earned its first NCAA March Madness victory since 2016, when the No. 12-seeded James Madison men upset No. 5-seeded Wisconsin, 72-61, in 2024. The landmark extension made Pensacola the longest-tenured (2021-2030) and most-frequent (10-time) host of the Sun Belt Basketball Championships all-time. 
 
In 2025, the Sun Belt established attendance records for both tournaments since relocating to Pensacola in 2021. Attendance grew 15 percent year-over-year from 2024 to 2025, with the men’s tournament games drawing the Sun Belt’s largest total attendance since 2009 and the women’s tournament games being the most attended since 2013. 
 
All 14 Sun Belt men’s and women’s teams will compete in the single-elimination tournament, with the two tournament champions earning automatic bids to March Madness. 
 
Women’s basketball tournament games will be contested during the morning sessions each day, with games tipping off primarily at 11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Men’s basketball tournament games will be played during the evening sessions, with games scheduled primarily at 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. 
 
The Troy men and Arkansas State women enter the 2025-26 season as the reigning tournament champions, after cutting down the nets in Pensacola in 2025.  
 
All-session ticket packages are available through the Bay Center Box Office or Ticketmaster. Additional fees may apply. 
 
Additional all-session ticket packages will go on sale on Monday, Dec. 1, with single-session tickets becoming available on Monday, Feb. 16.