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2016 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament

2016 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament
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Classification Division I
Season 2015–16
Teams 10
Site Toyota Center
Houston, Texas
Champions Southern (9th title)
Winning coach Roman Banks (2nd title)
MVP Trelun Banks (Southern)
SWAC Men's Basketball Tournaments
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2015–16 SWAC men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Texas Southern 16 2   .889     18 15   .545
Alcorn State* 13 5   .722     15 15   .500
Jackson State 12 6   .667     20 16   .556
Southern 11 7   .611     22 13   .629
Alabama State 9 9   .500     14 17   .452
Prairie View A&M 7 11   .389     7 24   .226
Alabama A&M 6 12   .333     11 18   .379
Arkansas–Pine Bluff 6 12   .333     8 25   .242
Mississippi Valley State 6 12   .333     8 27   .229
Grambling State 4 14   .222     7 24   .226
*ineligible for postseason due to APR violations
2016 SWAC Tournament winner


The 2016 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The tournament will be held from March 8–12, 2016 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas The champion will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Tournament.

All 10 SWAC teams participated in the Tournament. Alcorn State was ineligible for NCAA postseason play due to APR violations. Had Alcorn State won the tournament, the SWAC's bid would have been awarded to the highest remaining seed still in the field. The top 6 teams received a bye into the Quarterfinals.

Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

*Game times in Central Time. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.


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