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[QUOTE="Marsh01, post: 977835, member: 473"]
[SIZE=4][URL='http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/10/2014-swac-tournament-preview-texas-southern-looks-to-win-automatic-bid/']So its not secret that I watch this conference.  What a cluster this year for their post season.[/URL][/SIZE]

This year is a bizarre one. The number 1, 4, 9, and 10 seeds are NOT eligible for the NCAA tournament, but yet everyone will play in the conference tourney (probably because they’re desperate to sell tickets and Southern and Pine Bluff help them do that).

NCAA gave the SWAC a special exemption to give the NCAA bid to the eligible team that makes it the farthest. If there’s a tie, the best seed gets it.

So the likely  conference semifinal on Friday between 2 seed Texas Southern and 3 seed Alabama State is really for the NCAA bid, assuming the other semifinal includes ineligible 1 seed Southern and 4 seed Pine Bluff.

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