HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - The Sun Belt Conference went three for four in the opening night of the 2025 NCAA men’s soccer tournament. Marshall defeated Cleveland State 1-0 behind a first half goal by David de la Vibora and they will play at NC State Sunday evening.

LSU’s lone loss in the last 12 games came to Vandy in the SEC championship game, which was decided on penalty kicks.

The Roos (12-3-5) earned one with a stellar 2025 campaign, finishing as runners-up in the Summit League tournament. And on Thursday they defeated Lindenwood University 1-0 in front of a packed house at Durwood Stadium on the UMKC campus.

That was the start of the path that led Wojdelko, nicknamed "Wojo," to Vanderbilt soccer, where she's developed into the SEC Goalkeeper of the Year and the anchor of a team that won the SEC tournament and earned a No. 1 seed for the first time in the NCAA tournament.

The Hope College volleyball team was able to do that in a couple of pivotal spots late in the second set and it led to a 3-1 win over Southern Virginia in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament on Thursday, Nov. 20, at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Hope won 25-21, 20-25, 26-24, 25-22.

Last season, the SEC used a 59-19 mark against the other power conferences to create an unprecedented level of dominance over the national landscape. While it's still early, it would take a recovery of epic proportions for the conference to recreate the conditions which led to last year's historic Selection Sunday haul.

It's early, but the wins still count. And those wins are seeing the Iowa Hawkeyes rapidly ascend in CBS Sports' NCAA Tournament bracketology.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/syracuse as Kouwe says Syracuse is ‘100%’ an NCAA Tournament team. Count former Syracuse guard Andrew Kouwe as among the people who believe the 2025-26 Orange basketball team is meant for the NCAA postseason.