2014 SWAC Women's Basketball Tournament

2014 SWAC Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2013–14
Teams	10
Site	Toyota Center Houston, Texas
Television	ESPN3
SWAC Women's Basketball Tournaments «2013  2015»

2013–14 SWAC women's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Southern	16	–	2		.889			20	–	8		.714
Texas Southern	15	–	3		.833			20	–	13		.606
Jackson State	12	–	6		.667			15	–	15		.500
Prairie View A&M†	11	–	7		.611			14	–	18		.438
Alabama State	9	–	9		.500			16	–	14		.533
Mississippi Valley State	8	–	10		.444			9	–	21		.300
Grambling State	7	–	11		.389			11	–	20		.355
Alcorn State	7	–	11		.389			8	–	22		.267
Alabama A&M	3	–	15		.167			6	–	24		.200
Arkansas-Pine Bluff	2	–	16		.111			3	–	26		.103
† 2014 SWAC Tournament winner As of 10:03, 1 April 2014 (UTC); Rankings from AP Poll[1][2]

The 2014 SWAC Women's Basketball Tournament will take place March 11–15, 2014 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.^[3] The tournament champion will receive the Southwestern Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship.

Format

All 10 teams were eligible and able to compete in the 2014 Women's Basketball Tournament, unlike the men's bracket where only 6-teams were eligible until the SWAC adjusted the league's postseason ban.^[4] Seeds 1-6 received a bye into the quarterfinals. Rather than use the traditional 10-team scheduling format, where one full day was devoted to men's quarterfinals and the other to the women's quarterfinals, the SWAC decided to protect their top 2-seeds by giving them days off between matches. The tournament began with two quarterfinals on Tuesday featuring 7/10 and 8/9. The winner of these two matches moved on to play the 1 (vs. 8/9) and 2 (vs. 7/10) seeds on Wednesday. The 3 vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5 matches didn't take place until Thursday. The quarterfinal winners would meet in the semifinals on Friday, and the championship game took place on Saturday. The championship game aired live on ESPN3 and then aired tape delayed on ESPNU Sunday.

Seeds

2014 SWAC Women's Basketball Tournament seeds
Seed	School	Conference Record	Overall Record (End of Regular Season)	Tiebreaker
1.	Southern	16-2	19-7
2.	Texas Southern	15-3	18-11
3.	Jackson State	12-6	14-14
4.	Prairie View A&M	11-7	11-17
5.	Alabama State	9-9	16-13
6.	Mississippi Valley State	8-10	9-20
7.	Alcorn State	7-11	8-21	1-1 vs. Southern
8.	Grambling State	7-11	10-19	0-2 vs. Southern
9.	Alabama A&M	3-15	5-23
10.	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	2-16	3-25

Bracket

	First Round Tuesday, March 11					Quarterfinals Wednesday, March 12 & Thursday, March 13					Semifinals Friday, March 14					Championship Game Saturday, March 15 ESPN3
						1	Southern	80
						9	Alabama A&M	66
	8	Alcorn State	62
	9	Alabama A&M	64
											1	Southern	43
										4	Prairie View A&M	72
						4	Prairie View A&M	71
						5	Alabama State	61
																4	Prairie View A&M	63
																2	Texas Southern	58
						2	Texas Southern	82
						7	Grambling State	74
	7	Grambling State	83
	10	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	81
											2	Texas Southern	79
										3	Jackson State	77
						3	Jackson State	74
						6	Mississippi Valley State	68

All times listed are Central

References

1. "NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Standings - 2013-14". ESPN. Retrieved 11 Apr 2014.
2. "2014 NCAA Women's Basketball Rankings - AP Top 25 Postseason (Mar. 17)". ESPN. Retrieved 11 Apr 2014.
3. "SWAC relocates football, basketball championships to Houston". Houston Business Journal. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
4. "Report: Four ineligible teams allowed to compete in SWAC Tournament". College Basketball Talk. Retrieved 2014-03-01.

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