The Texas Southern Tigers represent
Texas Southern University
Texas Southern University (Texas Southern or TSU) is a public historically black university in Houston, Texas. The university is one of the largest and most comprehensive historically black college or universities in the USA with nearly 10,000 ...
in
Houston, Texas
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...
, in intercollegiate athletics. They field sixteen teams including men and women's basketball, cross country, golf, and track and field; women's-only bowling, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball; and men's-only baseball and football. The Tigers compete in the
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of College athletics, intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major ...
and are members of 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 ...
.
[http://www.swac.org/HomePage.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27400&SPLASH_SET=YES]
Sports sponsored
Gallery
Image: TXSUvsUAPBBaseball32722-45 (cropped).jpg, The Tigers baseball team in 2022
Image: TSU vs PVAMU Basketball 11120-51.jpg, The Tigers basketball team in 2020
Image: TXSU vs HBU 92819-34.jpg, A Tigers football game in 2019
Image: SWAC Track Field 5821-50.jpg, A Tigers relay
A relay
Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts
An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off
A relay is an electrically operated switch ...
team (second from left) in 2021
Image: Grambling vs TSU Softball 4922-60.jpg, A Lady Tigers softball player in 2022
Image: TSUvsASU12422-5 (51852696331).jpg, A Lady Tigers basketball game in 2022
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