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2017 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament

2017 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2016–17
Teams 8
Site Toyota Center
Houston, Texas
First round site Campus sites
Champions Texas Southern Tigers (7th title)
Winning coach Mike Davis (3rd title)
MVP Marvin Jones (Texas Southern)
SWAC Men's Basketball Tournaments
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2016–17 SWAC men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Texas Southern 16 2   .889     23 12   .657
Alcorn State* 13 5   .722     18 14   .563
Grambling State 10 8   .556     16 17   .485
Jackson State 10 8   .556     14 18   .438
Southern 10 8   .556     15 18   .455
Prairie View A&M 10 8   .556     13 20   .394
Mississippi Valley St. 7 11   .389     7 25   .219
Alabama State 6 12   .333     8 23   .258
Arkansas–Pine Bluff 6 12   .333     7 25   .219
Alabama A&M 2 16   .111     2 27   .069
*ineligible for postseason due to APR violations
2017 SWAC Tournament winner

The 2017 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Tournament first-round games will be played at the campus of the higher seeded team on March 7. The rest of the tournament will be held on March 10 and 11, 2017 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. The winner, Texas Southern, will receive the SWAC Conference automatic bid to the 2017 Men's Basketball Tournament with a 53-50 win over Alcorn State.

The top eight teams competed in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

First round games at campus sites of lower-numbered seeds


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