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.
Seeds 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. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker1Southern15–32Jackson State14–43Bethune–Cookman13–54Texas Southern12–61–0 vs. Alabama State5Alabama State12–60–1 vs. Texas Southern6Alcorn State11–77Florida A&M10–88Grambling State7–119Alabama A&M6–1210Prairie View A&M4–14DNQArkansas–Pine Bluff3–15DNQMississippi Valley State1–17
Schedule GameTime*Matchup#ScoreTelevisionFirst round – Tuesday, March 1112:00 p.m.No. 8 Grambling State vs. No. 9 Alabama A&M73–56ESPN+28:30 p.m.No. 7 Florida A&M vs. No. 10 Prairie View A&M75–66Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 1232:00 p.m.No. 1 Southern vs. No. 8 Grambling State62–65ESPN+48:30 p.m.No. 2 Jackson State vs. No. 7 Florida A&M91–76Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 1352:00 p.m.No. 4 Texas Southern vs. No. 5 Alabama State79–84ESPN+68:30 p.m.No. 3 Bethune–Cookman vs. No. 6 Alcorn State69–60Semifinals – Friday, March 1472:00 p.m.No. 8 Grambling State vs. No. 5 Alabama State62–64ESPN+88:30 p.m.No. 2 Jackson State vs. No. 3 Bethune–Cookman71–50Championship – Saturday, March 1599:30 p.m.No. 5 Alabama State vs. No. 2 Jackson State60–56ESPNU*Game times in EDT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
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