A little more than a week later on April 6, the SBC announced that men's soccer would be reinstated in 2022. On March 29, C-USA and those schools reached a settlement that allowed them to join the SBC in July 2022. The following month saw a legal dispute between C-USA and the three schools set to leave that league for the SBC (Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss, with Southern Miss sponsoring soccer only for women) over their departure date. This led the SBC to announce on Februthat JMU would join the conference in July 2022 instead of 2023. Shortly after James Madison announced its departure for the SBC, the CAA invoked a provision of its bylaws to bar JMU from its conference championship events. Accordingly, league commissioner Keith Gill announced on Novemthat SBC men's soccer would be reinstated no later than 2023. Further moves in this realignment cycle saw three men's soccer schools announce that they would join the SBC no later than 2023: Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) member James Madison, and then-reigning national champion Marshall and Old Dominion from Conference USA (C-USA). The season ended with the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament.Ī major conference realignment initially triggered in July 2021 when Oklahoma and Texas announced their plans to leave the Big 12 Conference for the Southeastern Conference eventually led to the reinstatement of Sun Belt men's soccer. The 2022 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season was the 20th season of men's varsity soccer in the Sun Belt Conference (SBC), marking the return of SBC men's soccer after a one-season hiatus. + – At-large invitation to the 2022 NCAA tournament
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