SWAC Championship Information

2018 SWAC tournament site: Delmar Center, Houston, TX
2018 SWAC tournament dates: March 6th, 9th-10th, 2018

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Seed Team 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.

  • Quarterfinals - higher seed.
  • Semifinals - neutral site.
  • Championship Game - neutral site.

The 2018 SWAC tournament bracket odds table above lists the round-by-round survival odds for every 2018 SWAC 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 SWAC tournament championship for every team in the 2018 SWAC bracket.

Projected Conference Standings

SWAC

  Current Projection Playoffs
Team conf W L conf W L overall W L Win Conf Win Tourn
Grambling St 13 5 13.0 5.0 17.0 14.0 100.0% 0.0%
Ark Pine Bl 12 6 12.0 6.0 14.0 21.0 0.0% 0.0%
Prairie View 12 6 12.0 6.0 16.0 18.0 0.0% 0.0%
TX Southern 12 6 12.0 6.0 15.0 19.0 0.0% 100.0%
Southern 10 8 10.0 8.0 15.0 18.0 0.0% 0.0%
Jackson St 9 9 9.0 9.0 12.0 20.0 0.0% 0.0%
Alabama St 8 10 8.0 10.0 8.0 23.0 0.0% 0.0%
Alcorn State 7 11 7.0 11.0 11.0 21.0 0.0% 0.0%
Miss Val St 4 14 4.0 14.0 4.0 28.0 0.0% 0.0%
Alab A&M 3 15 3.0 15.0 3.0 28.0 0.0% 0.0%

A team's relative odds to win the 2018 SWAC Championship depend only partly on their SWAC bracket seed. Winning the SWAC Championship also depends on the dynamics of the 2018 SWAC bracket. In some cases, the team with a better SWAC Championship seed may actually face a harder path to the SWAC Championship championship than a team with a worse SWAC tournament seed.

In addition, because SWAC tournament seeds are based on win-loss records in SWAC conference games, SWAC 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 SWAC bracket can have better odds to win the 2018 SWAC Championship than lower seeded teams in the SWAC bracket.