Southland Conference Tournament Information

2026 Southland tournament site: Legacy Center, Lake Charles, LA
2026 Southland tournament dates: March 8th-11th, 2026

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Seed Team Quarter Semi Champ Win

NOTE: We use the structure below to calculate home advantage.

In some cases this may not be the true game location; instead we may use a proxy location that we think makes our home advantage calculation more accurate than simply treating the location as a neutral court.

  • First Round - home court of McNeese.
  • Quarterfinals - home court of McNeese.
  • Semifinals - home court of McNeese.
  • Championship Game - home court of McNeese.

The 2026 Southland tournament bracket odds table above lists the round-by-round survival odds for every 2026 Southland tournament team. Using win odds calculations derived from our sophisticated power ratings, we analyze the likelihood and expected outcome of every possible path to the Southland tournament championship for every team in the 2026 Southland bracket.

Projected Conference Standings

Southland

  Current Projection Playoffs
Team conf W L conf W L overall W L Win Conf Win Tourn
SF Austin 20 2 20.0 2.0 28.2 5.8 100.0% 0.0%
McNeese 19 3 19.0 3.0 28.1 5.9 0.0% 100.0%
UT Rio Grande 14 8 14.0 8.0 19.0 14.0 0.0% 0.0%
Texas A&M-CC 13 9 13.0 9.0 18.0 15.0 0.0% 0.0%
New Orleans 12 10 12.0 10.0 15.0 18.0 0.0% 0.0%
Nicholls 12 10 12.0 10.0 14.0 19.0 0.0% 0.0%
Hou Christian 8 14 8.0 14.0 12.0 20.0 0.0% 0.0%
NW State 8 14 8.0 14.0 10.0 22.0 0.0% 0.0%
Incarnate Word 7 15 7.0 15.0 12.0 19.0 0.0% 0.0%
Lamar 7 15 7.0 15.0 12.0 19.0 0.0% 0.0%
E Texas A&M 6 16 6.0 16.0 11.0 21.0 0.0% 0.0%
SE Louisiana 6 16 6.0 16.0 9.0 22.0 0.0% 0.0%

A team's relative odds to win the 2026 Southland Conference Tournament depend only partly on their Southland bracket seed. Winning the Southland Conference Tournament also depends on the dynamics of the 2026 Southland bracket. In some cases, the team with a better Southland Conference Tournament seed may actually face a harder path to the Southland Conference Tournament championship than a team with a worse Southland tournament seed.

In addition, because Southland tournament seeds are based on win-loss records in Southland conference games, Southland tournament seeds are not always the most accurate measure of a team's true performance level. This is another reason why higher seeded teams in the Southland bracket can have better odds to win the 2026 Southland Conference Tournament than lower seeded teams in the Southland bracket.