2025 SWAC men's basketball tournament

2025 SWAC men's basketball tournament
2025 SWAC men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2024–25
Teams	10
Site	Gateway Center Arena; College Park, Georgia
Champions	Alabama State (5th title)
Winning coach	Tony Madlock (1st title)
Television	ESPN+, ESPNU
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ClassificationDivision I

Teams10

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

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreaker^[4]
1	Southern	15–3
2	Jackson State	14–4
3	Bethune–Cookman	13–5
4	Texas Southern	12–6	1–0 vs. Alabama State
5	Alabama State	12–6	0–1 vs. Texas Southern
6	Alcorn State	11–7
7	Florida A&M	10–8
8	Grambling State	7–11
9	Alabama A&M	6–12
10	Prairie View A&M	4–14
DNQ	Arkansas–Pine Bluff	3–15
DNQ	Mississippi Valley State	1–17

Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Score	Television
First round – Tuesday, March 11
1	2:00 p.m.	No. 8 Grambling State vs. No. 9 Alabama A&M	73–56	ESPN+
2	8:30 p.m.	No. 7 Florida A&M vs. No. 10 Prairie View A&M	75–66	ESPN+
Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 12
3	2:00 p.m.	No. 1 Southern vs. No. 8 Grambling State	62–65^OT	ESPN+
4	8:30 p.m.	No. 2 Jackson State vs. No. 7 Florida A&M	91–76	ESPN+
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 13
5	2:00 p.m.	No. 4 Texas Southern vs. No. 5 Alabama State	79–84	ESPN+
6	8:30 p.m.	No. 3 Bethune–Cookman vs. No. 6 Alcorn State	69–60	ESPN+
Semifinals – Friday, March 14
7	2:00 p.m.	No. 8 Grambling State vs. No. 5 Alabama State	62–64	ESPN+
8	8:30 p.m.	No. 2 Jackson State vs. No. 3 Bethune–Cookman	71–50	ESPN+
Championship – Saturday, March 15
9	9:30 p.m.	No. 5 Alabama State vs. No. 2 Jackson State	60–56	ESPNU
*Game times in EDT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.^[5]

v t e Southwestern Athletic Conference men's basketball
Teams	Alabama A&M Bulldogs Alabama State Hornets Alcorn State Braves Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions Bethune–Cookman Wildcats Florida A&M Rattlers Grambling State Tigers Jackson State Tigers Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils Prairie View A&M Panthers Southern Jaguars Texas Southern Tigers
Championships & awards	SWAC men's basketball tournament Player of the Year
Seasons	1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26

v t e 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments
Conference	ACC America East American ASUN Atlantic 10 Big 12 Big East Big Sky Big South Big Ten Big West CAA CUSA Horizon Ivy MAAC MEAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Mountain West Northeast Ohio Valley Patriot SEC Southern Southland Summit Sun Belt SWAC WAC West Coast
National	NCAA NIT CBC CBI

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