2024–25 SWAC men's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Southern 13 1   .929 18 9   .667
Jackson State 10 4   .714 10 17   .370
Bethune–Cookman 10 5   .667 13 15   .464
Texas Southern 10 5   .667 13 15   .464
Alabama State 9 6   .600 13 15   .464
Florida A&M 9 6   .600 12 14   .462
Alcorn State 8 6   .571 8 19   .296
Grambling State 6 8   .429 9 18   .333
Alabama A&M 6 9   .400 10 18   .357
Prairie View A&M 4 11   .267 5 23   .179
Arkansas–Pine Bluff 2 13   .133 5 23   .179
Mississippi Valley State 1 14   .067 3 25   .107
2025 SWAC tournament winner
As of February 24, 2025

The 2025 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament will be the postseason men's basketball tournament for the 2024–25 season in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The tournament will be held from March 11–15, 2025 at Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia.[1] The tournament winner will receive an automatic invitation to the 2025 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. The tournament will be sponsored by Pepsi.[2]

Seeds

Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tie–breaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Only the top ten teams in the conference will qualify for the tournament, after the conference expanded the tournament field from eight to ten teams.[3]

Seed School Conference Tiebreaker[4]
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Schedule

Game Time* Matchup# Score Television
First round – Tuesday, March 11
1 2:00 p.m. No. 8 vs. No. 9 ESPN+
2 8:30 p.m. No. 7 vs. No. 10
Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 12
3 2:00 p.m. No. 1 vs. Winner Game 1 ESPN+
4 8:30 p.m. No. 2 vs. Winner Game 2
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 13
5 2:00 p.m. No. 4 vs. No. 5 ESPN+
6 8:30 p.m. No. 3 vs. No. 6
Semifinals – Friday, March 14
7 2:00 p.m. Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 5 ESPN+
8 8:30 p.m. Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 6
Championship – Saturday, March 15
9 9:30 p.m. Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8 TBD
*Game times in EDT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.[5]

Bracket

First round
March 11, 2025
ESPN+
Quarterfinals
March 12–13, 2025
ESPN+
Semifinals
March 14, 2025
ESPN+
Championship
March 15, 2025
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References

  1. ^ "2025 Starry SWAC Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments". swac.org. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  2. ^ Mosley, Kyle T. (July 25, 2023). "SWAC, PepsiCo Expanded Partnership, Increases HBCU Investment". HBCU Legends. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  3. ^ Keith, J. T. "SWAC expands its basketball tournaments, adds technology for football teams on game day". The Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  4. ^ "SWAC Basketball Tiebreaker Policy". SWAC.org. SWAC.
  5. ^ "2025 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament FINAL (PDF) - Southwestern Athletic Conference" (PDF). swac.org. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
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