Southwestern Athletic Conference
School Championships Championship Years
Southern 9 1981 , 1985 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989 , 1993 , 2006 , 2013 , 2016
Texas Southern 8 1990 , 1994 , 1995 , 2003 , 2014 , 2015 , 2017 , 2018
Alcorn State 7 1979 , 1980 , 1982 , 1983 , 1984 , 1999 , 2002
Mississippi Valley State 6 1986 , 1992 , 1996 , 2008 , 2012
Jackson State 5 1978 , 1991 , 1997 , 2000 , 2007
Alabama State 4 2001 , 2004 2009 , 2011
Prairie View A & M 2 1998 , 2019
Alabama A & M 1 2005
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 1 2010
SWAC Championships -- Men 's basketball
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; in football, it participates in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly referred to as Division I-AA. The SWAC is widely considered the premier HBCU conference and ranks among the elite in the nation in terms of alumni affiliated with professional sports teams, particularly in football. On the gridiron, the conference has been the biggest draw on the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level of the NCAA, leading the nation in average home attendance every year except one since FCS has been in existence. In 1994, the SWAC fell just 40,000 fans short of becoming the first non-Football Bowl Subdivision conference to attract one million fans to its home games.