Question: What collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama includes schools such as Texas Southern University?

Context articles: Texas Southern Tigers football
2012–13 Texas Southern Tigers basketball team
2014–15 Texas Southern Tigers basketball team
Texas Southern University
2015–16 Texas Southern Tigers basketball team
Fred West (basketball)
Ronnie Courtney
Southwestern Athletic Conference
Randy Bolden
2014 Texas Southern Tigers football team

The Texas Southern Tigers is the college football team representing Texas Southern University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Houston.
 The Tigers play in the NCAA's Division I FCS as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), a conference whose members are all HBCUs.
 In 2012, the Tigers moved into the new BBVA Compass Stadium, built for the city's Major League Soccer team, the Houston Dynamo.
 It replaced the Alexander Durley Sports Complex as the home of Tiger football.
 On December 3, 2015, Houston native Michael Haywood was hired as the Tigers' 16th all-time head coach.
The 2012–13 Texas Southern Tigers basketball team represented Texas Southern University during the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The Tigers, led by first year head coach Mike Davis, played their home games at the Health and Physical Education Arena and were members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
 Texas Southern is serving a two-year postseason ban for men's basketball, after the NCAA Division I Infractions Committee said it found a lack of institutional control and outlined problems spanning 13 sports over a seven-year period, including booster-related recruiting violations, academic improprieties, the use of ineligible athletes and exceeding scholarship limits.
 The Tigers finished the season 17–14, 16–2 in SWAC play to claim the SWAC regular season championship.
 They ended the season on a 12-game winning streak.
 Due to the post season ban, they could not participate in the 2013 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament.
The 2014–15 Texas Southern Tigers basketball team represented Texas Southern University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The Tigers, led by third-year head coach Mike Davis, played their home games at the Health and Physical Education Arena and were members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
 They finished the season 22–13, 16–2 in SWAC play to be SWAC regular season champions.
 They defeated Alcorn State, Prairie View A&M, and Southern to become champions of the SWAC Tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
 As a 15 seed, they lost in the Second Round to Arizona.
Texas Southern University (shortened to Texas Southern or simply TSU) is a historically black university (HBCU) located in Houston, in the U.S. state of Texas, accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
 The university was established in 1927 as the Houston Colored Junior College.
 It developed through its private college phase as the four-year Houston Colored College.
 On March 3, 1947, the state declared this to be the first state university in Houston; it was renamed Texas State University for Negroes.
 In 1951, the name changed to Texas Southern University.
The 2015–16 Texas Southern Tigers basketball team represented Texas Southern University during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The Tigers, led by fourth year head coach Mike Davis, played their home games at the Health and Physical Education Arena and were members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
 They finished the season 18–15, 16–2 in SWAC play to win the regular season SWAC championship.
 They defeated Alabama A&M in the quarterfinals of the SWAC Tournament to advance to the semifinals where they lost to Southern.
 As regular season conference champions who failed to win their conference tournament, they received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament where they lost to Valparaiso in the first round.
Fred West (born  1969 ) is a retired American expatriate professional basketball player who is best known for his college career at Texas Southern University between 1986–87 and 1989–90.
 He guided the Tigers to an overall record of 68 wins and 51 losses during that time.
 As a junior in 1988–89, Texas Southern were co-regular season Southwestern Athletic Conference champions but lost in the conference tournament.
 The following year, West's senior season, they did not repeat as regular season champions but did manage to win the SWAC Conference Tournament, thus automatically qualifying Texas Southern for its first-ever NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
 The Tigers, seeded #14 in the Midwest Region, lost to #3 Georgetown in the first round.
 West scored 2,066 points and grabbed 1,136 rebounds in his collegiate career, placing him in an exclusive group of players to have reached both milestones at the Division I level.
Ronnie Courtney (born October 6, 1957) began his coaching career at Furr High School as an assistant football, basketball, and track coach.
 After eight years, he moved to Jefferson Davis High School as the head basketball coach, assistant football coach, and assistant track coach.
 While at Jeff Davis, his basketball team made the play-offs five of the eight years and Coach Courtney was named Greater Houston Coach of the Year and District Coach of the Year twice, compiling a record of 137-76.
 He then moved to Willowridge High School for four years where, as head basketball coach, he led his teams to back-to-back State titles in 2000 and 2001.
 Coach Courtney was named State Coach of the Year both years.
 In 2001, he was named National High School Coach of the Year.
 His record at Willowridge High School was 100-44.
 In 2001, Coach Courtney accepted the head basketball coaching position at Texas Southern University.
 In 2001, he was named Insider.com College Coach of the Year.
 In 2003, he led Texas Southern University to the NCAA tournament and was named Southwestern Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.
 He compiled a record of 77-98 while at Texas Southern.
 Courtney was fired from Texas Southern University on July 19, 2007.
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), still frequently referred to by its former designation of Division I-AA.
Randy Bolden (born  1976 ) is an American former professional basketball player who is better known for his collegiate career at Texas Southern University between 1994–95 and 1997–98.
 A 6 ft point guard, Bolden was twice named the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Player of the Year, first as a junior and again as a senior.
 He was born in Jackson, Mississippi and attended Forest Hill High School prior to enrolling at Texas Southern.
 Today he is the head boys' basketball coach at Meridian High School in Meridian, Mississippi.
The 2014 Texas Southern Tigers football team represented Texas Southern University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season.
 The Tigers were led by third year head coach Darrell Asberry and played their home games at a BBVA Compass Stadium.
 They were a member of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).
 They finished the season 5–6, 3–6 in SWAC play to finish in a tie for 4th place in the West Division.