SWAC basketball tournament 2015: Bracket, schedule and scores

It's Texas Southern and everyone else in a typically weak SWAC field.

The SWAC Tournament doesn't have much star power, but there is still an NCAA Tournament bid up for grabs, so every team will have extra motivation when they travel to the Toyota Center in Houston this week.

Texas Southern is the prohibitive favorite to win it all after running through the conference with a 15-2 record. It's hard to tell how good the Tigers really are given their competition -- four of the 10 SWAC teams have 20 losses or more, and seven rank lower than 300th in the KenPom rankings. Whoever comes out of this conference may be forced to travel to Dayton for the First Four.

The format

Nine teams are competing in this year's tournament.. Alabama State and Southern are ineligible for the NCAA Tournament, but are allowed to compete in the SWAC tourney, which could make things awkward if one of them end up winning it all. The bottom two teams have a play-in game to determine the No. 1 seed's first opponent. The tournament otherwise follows a standard eight-team format.

The teams

1. Texas Southern Tigers


2. Alabama State Hornets
   


3. Southern Jaguars
   


4. Prairie View A&M Panthers


5. Jackson State Tigers


6. Alabama A&M Bulldogs


7. Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils


8. Alcorn State Braves


9. Grambling State Tigers

Bracket

A complete bracket can be found here.

Schedule and results (all times Eastern)

Tuesday, March 10 (First round)

Game 1: No. 8 Alcorn State 66, No. 9 Grambling 52

Wednesday, March 11 (Quarterfinals)

Game 2: No. 2 Alabama State 93, No. 7 Mississippi Valley State 81

Game 3: No. 1 Texas Southern 95, No. 8 Alcorn State 74

Thursday, March 12 (Quarterfinals)

Game 4: No. 3 Southern 64, No. 6 Alabama A&M 60

Game 5: No. 4 Prairie View 62, No. 5 Jackson State 56

Friday, March 13 (Semifinals)

Game 6: No. 3 Southern 68, No. 2 Alabama State 66

Game 7: No. 1 Texas Southern vs. No. 4 Prairie View, 9 p.m.

Saturday, March 14 (Championship)

No. 3 Southern vs. Game 7 winner, 5 p.m., ESPN3

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