| Year: | 2023 |
| Conference: | SWAC |
| Division: | I |
| Gender: | Women's |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Arena: | Bartow Arena |
| City: | Birmingham, Alabama |
| Television: | ESPN+ |
The 2023 SWAC Women's Basketball Tournament will be the postseason women's basketball tournament for the 2022–23 season in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The tournament will be held from March 8–11, 2023.[1] The tournament winner will receive an automatic invitation to the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. The tournament will be sponsored by Cricket Wireless.
Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tie–breaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Only the top eight teams in the conference will qualify for the tournament.
| Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker[2] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jackson State | 17-1 | ||
| 2 | Alabama A&M | 12-6 | 3-2 vs. 12-6 teams; 117-115 margin vs. Alabama State | |
| 3 | Alabama State | 12-6 | 3-2 vs. 12-6 teams; 115-117 margin vs. Alabama A&M | |
| 4 | Southern | 12-6 | 3-3 vs. tied 12-6 teams | |
| 5 | Prairie View A&M | 12-6 | 1-3 vs. tied 12-6 teams | |
| 6 | Bethune-Cookman | 10-8 | 1-0 vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff | |
| 7 | Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 10-8 | 0-1 vs. Bethune-Cookman | |
| 8 | Grambling State | 9-9 | ||
| DNQ | Alcorn State | 8-10 | ||
| DNQ | Florida A&M | 4-14 | ||
| DNQ | Texas Southern | 2-16 | ||
| DNQ | Mississippi Valley State | 0-18 |
| Game | Time* | Matchup# | Score | Television | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | ||||||
| 1 | 11:00 a.m. | No. 2 Alabama A&M vs. No. 7 Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 55-62 | ESPN+ | ||
| 2 | 5:30 p.m. | No. 1 Jackson State vs. No. 8 Grambling State | 59-50 | |||
| Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 9, 2023 | ||||||
| 3 | 11:00 a.m. | No. 3 Alabama State vs. No. 6 Bethune-Cookman | 70-61 | ESPN+ | ||
| 4 | 5:30 p.m. | No. 4 Southern vs. No. 5 Prairie View A&M | 64-37 | |||
| Semifinals – Friday, March 10, 2023 | ||||||
| 5 | 11:00 a.m. | No. 1 Jackson State vs. No. 4 Southern | 65–64 | ESPN+ | ||
| 6 | 5:30 p.m. | No. 7 Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs. No. 3 Alabama State | 71–66 | |||
| Championship – Saturday, March 11, 2023 | ||||||
| 7 | 1:00 p.m. | No. 4 Southern vs. No. 7 Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 62-53 | ESPN+ | ||