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McClelland still expects SWAC teams to travel for so-called guarantee games that lead to big payouts. (In those two seasons, Florida A&M, which joined the SWAC this year, also played three road games against Pac-12 universities.) The Pac-12 schools won all of them, including Utah’s 143-49 dismantling of Mississippi Valley State and two games that were decided by just 4 points.

There have been a dozen matchups between Pac-12 and SWAC teams across the last two seasons. The pairings for those games have not been determined. In 2023, the teams will meet again, with the home and away programs swapped.Īlabama A&M, Alcorn State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Bethune-Cookman, Jackson State and Mississippi Valley State will take the SWAC’s places in the rotation in 2024, along with California, Oregon State, Stanford, U.C.L.A., Utah and Washington from the Pac-12. Also in 2022, Arizona State will take a trip to Texas Southern, Washington State will compete at Prairie View A&M and Colorado will appear at Grambling State. In 2022, Southern will play at Arizona, Florida A&M will visit Oregon and Alabama State will travel to Southern California. “This is something that we have been waiting for within the Southwestern Athletic Conference.”Īccording to McClelland, the league, founded in 1920 and based in Birmingham, Ala., has never had such an agreement with a Power 5 conference like the Pac-12, which has its offices in San Francisco. “It kind of evens the playing field,” said Charles McClelland, the SWAC commissioner, who noted his league’s protracted struggle to attract top-tier nonconference opponents for home games. League executives expect that all of the games, which are to be played early in each season, will be televised.

The new plan, which calls for no money to change hands, will see SWAC schools hosting at least one high-profile nonconference game, potentially attracting more attention and ticket-buying fans to their universities in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. The partnership is unusual because Power 5 programs usually build their nonconference schedules around neutral site matchups that are made-for-TV showdowns against big-name brands, or home games that involve paying less wealthy and prominent schools to play. Under a four-year scheduling arrangement that the leagues announced on Monday, Pac-12 and SWAC programs will stage home-and-home games beginning next year. A twist is coming in 2022: Pac-12 teams will start to travel to play the SWAC’s historically Black colleges and universities. 1 Kansas 81, No.The Southwestern Athletic Conference’s men’s basketball teams have, year after year, traveled west to play Pac-12 Conference schools. You can stream all of the games at WatchESPN. The semifinals are on Friday and the championship is on Saturday. 2 West Virginia plays the Texas Tech/TCU winner.

1 Kansas plays the Kansas State/Oklahoma State winner, while No. The bottom four teams play on Wednesday, which means No.

However, KU will enjoy a home-court advantage, as the tournament is played at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. Iowa State has won the past two Big 12 tournaments, and the Jayhawks have won the tournament just once in their past four tries. Seven of the conference's 10 teams - Kansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Baylor, Iowa State and Texas Tech - are locks for the NCAA Tournament, and Kansas State has a chance to make the NIT.Īlthough Kansas has been the class of the league in the regular season, the league tournament looks to be wide open. The Big 12 is the strongest conference in the country, according to, and it's not particularly close. That's a monumental feat, but it doesn't mean the Jayhawks have the conference tournament locked up. The Big 12 had more parity than any other league in the country this season, and despite all the false alarms, with the supposed rises of Iowa State and Oklahoma, Kansas wound up winning the league for the 12th straight year.