High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011–12 Belmont Bruins men`s basketball team represented Belmont University during the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men`s basketball season. The Bruins, led by 26th-year head coach Rick Byrd, played their home games at Curb Event Center and were in their final season as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference. Belmont became a member of the Ohio Valley Conference on July 1, 2012.