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2025 SWAC men's basketball tournament
| 2025 SWAC men's basketball tournament |
|---|
| Division I |
| 2024–25 |
| 10 |
| Gateway Center ArenaCollege Park, Georgia |
| Alabama State (5th title) |
| Tony Madlock (1st title) |
| ESPN+, ESPNU |
| SWAC men's basketball tournaments |
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. 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.
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.
| Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 3 | 2:00 p.m. | No. 1 Southern vs. No. 8 Grambling State | 62–65OT | ESPN+ |
| 4 | 8:30 p.m. | No. 2 Jackson State vs. No. 7 Florida A&M | 91–76 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
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