The 2016 SWAC men's basketball tournament is the postseason men's basketball tournament for the

Southwestern Athletic Conference The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States. It participates in t ...

. The tournament will be held from March 8–12, 2016 at the Toyota Center in

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The champion will receive the conference's automatic bid to the

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Seeds

All 10 SWAC teams participated in the Tournament.

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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.

Schedule

*Game times in

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. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

References

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