SWAC basketball goes to look a bit completely different heading into the long run.
The league’s presidents and chancellors authorized a number of adjustments on the annual spring assembly — two of them associated to its basketball construction.
The league voted to increase the variety of groups that can take part within the SWAC Males’s and Girls’s Basketball Tournaments from eight to 10 groups on each side for the 2025 tournaments. The 2026 SWAC Males’s and Girls’s Basketball Tournaments will characteristic all 12 males’s and ladies’s groups in motion. This can mark the primary time that the convention match has featured 12 groups, because it beforehand invited all groups when the league had 10 establishments previous to the arrival of Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman.
Along with the change on the basketball tournaments, the construction will change for normal season contests.
A brand new scheduling format for males’s and ladies’s basketball was additionally authorized for the 2024-25 tutorial 12 months. Girls’s basketball league contests can be performed on Thursdays and Saturdays with males’s basketball video games set for Saturdays and Mondays.
Within the earlier format, ladies’s and males’s video games have been on the identical days, creating double-headers. Now the SWAC ladies could have Thursday video games to themselves whereas the lads could have Monday night time highlight alone.
In regards to the SWACThe Southwestern Athletic Convention (SWAC) is taken into account one of many premier HBCU conferences within the nation and presently ranks among the many elite within the nation by way of HBCU alumni enjoying with skilled sports activities groups.
Present championship competitors supplied by the league consists of competitors for males in Baseball, Basketball, Cross Nation, Soccer, Golf, Indoor Observe and Discipline, Out of doors Observe and Discipline and Tennis.
Girls’s competitors is obtainable within the sports activities of Basketball, Bowling, Cross Nation, Golf, Indoor Observe and Discipline, Out of doors Observe and Discipline, Soccer, Softball, Tennis and Volleyball.
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