In 2002, the Southland changed the format to play games at the campus of sites of each higher seed, during every round of the tournament.
This was changed again in 2007, the first year that the conference selected a neutral site for all rounds of the tournament.
Starting with the 2023 edition, the event is held at The Legacy Center on the campus of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, reportedly as part of a deal that kept McNeese in the Southland after it had been courted by Conference USA and nearly joined the Western Athletic Conference.
[1] This move followed a 15-season run (2008–2022) at Leonard E. Merrell Center in the Houston suburb of Katy, Texas.
[2] Schools indicated in italics with a pink background are no longer in the SLC, as of the current 2024–25 NCAA basketball season.