2009 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament

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The 2009 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championships will commence March 22, 2009 and conclude April 8 of that same year.

[edit] Regionals

Once again, the system is the same as the Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, with the exception that only 64 teams go and there is no play-in game. Automatic bids are secured by 31 conference champions and 33 at-large bids. The regionals will be held from March 28 to March 31 at these sites:

• East Regional: Sovereign Bank Arena, Trenton, New Jersey (Hosts: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Rider University).
• South Regional: RBC Center, Raliegh, North Carolina (Host: North Carolina State University).
• Midwest Regional: Ford Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Host: Big 12 Conference).
• West Regional: Haas Pavilion, University of California, Berkley, Berkeley, California.

The subregionals, which will use the "pod system", keeping most teams either at or close to the home cities, will be held from March 21 to March 24 at these sites:

• The Pit, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Pete Maravich Assembly Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio (Host: The Ohio State University)
• Comcast Center, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland
• Arena at Gwinnett Center, Duluth, Georgia (Host: University of Georgia)
• United Spirit Arena, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
• Galen Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
• Louis Brown Athletic Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey

NOTE: Unless otherwise specified, the sites are on-campus sites.

The regional winners will advance to the Final Four, to be held April 5 and 7, 2008 at the Scottrade Center, in St. Louis, Missouri, hosted by the Missouri Valley Conference.

[edit] See also

• 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
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