2022 SWAC women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2022
Conference:SWAC
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:8
Arena:Bartow Arena
City:Birmingham, Alabama
Television:ESPN+,

The 2022 SWAC women's basketball tournament (officially known as the Cricket Wireless SWAC Basketball Tournament due to sponsorship reasons) was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the 2021–22 season in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The tournament was held from March 9 to 12, 2022.[1] The tournament winner will receive an automatic invitation to the 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

Seeds

Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tie–breaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Only the top eight teams in the conference qualify for the tournament.

SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 2Tiebreaker 3[2]
1Jackson State18–0
2Alabama A&M13–5
3Alabama State12–6
4Southern11–71-1 vs. Texas Southern
5Texas Southern11-71-1 vs. Southernnowrap147-147 score vs. Southern0-2 vs. Jackson State
6Prairie View A&M10-82-0 vs. Grambling State
7Grambling State10-8
8Arkansas-Pine Bluff9-9
DNQBethune-Cookman5–13
DNQFlorida A&M4–14
DNQMississippi Valley State3–15
DNQAlcorn State2–16

Schedule

GameTime*Matchup#ScoreTelevision
Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 9, 2022
111:00 amNo. 2 Alabama A&M vs. No. 7 Grambling State62–54ESPN+
25:30 pmNo. 1 Jackson State vs. No. 8 Arkansas-Pine Bluff78–67
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 10, 2022
311:00 amNo. 3 Alabama State vs. No. 6 Prairie View A&M60-58ESPN+
45:30 pmNo. 4 Southern vs. No. 5 Texas Southern68-67
Semifinals – Friday, March 11, 2022
511:00 amNo. 7 Grambling State vs. No. 3 Alabama State59-74ESPN+
65:30 pmNo. 1 Jackson State vs. No. 4 Southern59-46
Championship – Saturday, March 12, 2022
71:30 pmNo. 1 Jackson State vs. No. 3 Alabama State 101–80ESPN+
  • Game times in CDT. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022 Cricket Wireless SWAC Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments. 2022-02-19. swac.org. en.
  2. Web site: SWAC Basketball Tiebreaker Policy . SWAC.org . SWAC.