2014 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament

2014 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament

Tournament logo
Classification Division I
Season 2013–14
Teams 10
Site Toyota Center
Houston, Texas
Champions Texas Southern (5th title)
Winning coach Mike Davis (1st title)
MVP Aaric Murray (Texas Southern)
Television ESPN2
SWAC Men's Basketball Tournaments
«2013  2015»
2013–14 SWAC men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Southern* 15 – 3   .833     19 – 13   .594
Texas Southern † 12 – 6   .667     19 – 15   .559
Alabama State 12 – 6   .667     19 – 13   .594
Arkansas–Pine Bluff* 11 – 7   .611     13 – 18   .419
Alabama A&M 10 – 8   .556     14 – 16   .467
Alcorn State** 9 – 9   .500     12 – 19   .387
Jackson State 7 – 11   .389     11 – 20   .355
Prairie View A&M 6 – 12   .333     11 – 23   .324
Mississippi Valley State* 5 – 13   .278     9 – 23   .281
Grambling State* 3 – 15   .167     5 – 24   .172
† 2014 SWAC Tournament winner
Rankings from AP Poll
*ineligible for postseason play due to APR penalties
**Handed a L1 APR penalty, but eligible for post-season

The 2014 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament took place March 11–15 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.[1]

Format

Ten teams participated in the 2014 tournament. Arkansas-Pine Bluff,[2] Grambling State,[3] Mississippi Valley State,[4] and Southern University[5] each received one-year postseason bans in men's basketball, thus were not allowed to participate in the 2014 SWAC Tournament, due to failing to meet the NCAA's APR requirements.[6]

On March 1, 2014, the NCAA Selection Committee announced that the SWAC received a special exemption from the NCAA men's basketball selection committee to adjust which team earns its automatic berth to the tournament, All four ineligible teams will be allowed to play in the tourney due to only six teams being eligible. If one of the four ineligible teams wins the tournament, the team among the six eligible teams that advances the furthest in the tournament will receive the NCAA tournament bid. In the event of a tie (for example, all tournament-eligible teams are eliminated in the same round), the automatic berths will go to the highest-seeded team.[7] With all four ineligible teams being eliminated in the quarterfinals or before, this contingency was rendered moot, and the tournament winner received an automatic berth after all.

Schedule

Session Game Time* Matchup# Television Score
First round – Tuesday, March 11
1 1 12:30 pm #7 Jackson State vs. #10 Grambling State* 84–75
2 8:00 pm #8 Prairie View A&M vs. #9 Mississippi Valley State* 79–63
Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 12
2 3 12:30 pm #10 Grambling State vs. #2 Texas Southern 79–54
4 8:00 pm #8 Prairie View A&M vs. #1 Southern* 64–46
Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 13
3 5 12:30 pm #3 Alabama State vs. #6 Alcorn State 64–51
6 8:00 pm #4 Arkansas–Pine Bluff* vs. #5 Alabama A&M 69–50
Semifinals – Friday, March 14
4 7 2:30 pm #2 Texas Southern vs. #3 Alabama State 73–61
8 8:30 pm #8 Prairie View A&M vs. #5 Alabama A&M 55–49
Championship – Saturday, March 15
5 9 3:30 pm #2 Texas Southern vs. #8 Prairie View A&M ESPN2 78–73

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

Bracket

  First round
Tuesday, March 11
 		 Quarterfinals
Wednesday, March 12
Thursday, March 13		 Semifinals
Friday, March 14
 		 Championship
Saturday, March 15
ESPN2
                                     
        
  1  Southern* 46  
    8  Prairie View A&M 64  
8  Prairie View A&M 79
9  Mississippi Valley St* 63  
  8  Prairie View A&M 55  
  5  Alabama A&M 49  
        
        
  4  Arkansas–Pine Bluff* 50
    5  Alabama A&M 69  
      
        
  8  Prairie View A&M 73
  2  Texas Southern 78
        
        
  2  Texas Southern 79
    10  Grambling State* 54  
7  Jackson State 75
10  Grambling State* 84  
  2  Texas Southern 73
  3  Alabama State 61  
        
        
  3  Alabama State 64
    6  Alcorn State 61  
      

* Ineligible for postseason play due to APR penalties

References

  1. ↑ "2014 Toyota SWAC Basketball Tournament". SWAC. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  2. ↑ http://pbcommercial.com/sections/sports/uapb/golden-lion-hoops-banned-postseason-again-%E2%80%94-now.html
  3. ↑ http://www.shreveporttimes.com/viewart/20130611/SPORTS02/306110041/Grambling-basketball-banned-from-postseason
  4. ↑ Harten, David (June 11, 2013). "APR reports released, UConn ban lifted, six teams banned from postseason". NBC Sports.
  5. ↑ "Southern's athletic teams are banned by the NCAA from postseason tournaments". The Times-Picayune. February 13, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Mississippi Valley State banned from basketball postseason due to low APR scores". The Mississippi Press. June 20, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  7. ↑ Katz, Andy. "NCAA gives SWAC exemption". ESPN. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
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