The Atlantic Sun is usually just your run of the mill low-major Division I conference. They're almost always outside of the top 20 in the RPI's conference rankings and don't sniff ever an at-large bid. But so far this southeastern conference with constantly changing membership has pulled off four upsets of BCS conference teams.
The first was Gardner-Webb stunning a ranked Kentucky team at Rupp Arena in the opening rounds of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. This was a team that was bad enough to post a 9-21 record last season en route to finishing 7th in the conference. Then Mercer - another sub .500 conference team - went to USC and beat the Trojans to spoil OJ Mayo's debut. Both of these wins were by double digits. Not exactly lucky wins.
The latest two wins were pulled off by defending conference champ Belmont, winning at Cincy and at Alabama over the last week. Neither of those teams are expected to be as good as Kentucky or USC, but wins at high-major programs for a team like Belmont are always something special.
Of course the Atlantic Sun is still just 13-29 against Division I teams this season so there's only so much to be excited about. But either way, four wins over name programs in two weeks is amazing for this conference.
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