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(March 2009) 2009 NCAA Men's Division I

Basketball Tournament

2009 Final Four logo Season 2008–09 Teams 65 Finals Site Ford Field

Detroit, Michigan

United States NCAA Men's Division I Tournaments «2008 2010»

The 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament is a tournament involving 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2008–09 basketball season. It began on March 17, 2009, and concludes with the championship game on April 6 (9:21 p.m. ET) at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, marking the first time a Final Four will have a minimum seating capacity of 70,000. University of Detroit Mercy hosts this 71st annual Division I Men's Basketball Championship tournament. For the first time since seeding began, all #1-#3 seeds made it into the Sweet 16, and for the third consecutive time, all #1 seeds made the elite eight. Contents [hide] 1 Tournament procedure 2 Qualifying teams 3 Brackets 3.1 Opening Round Game – Dayton, Ohio 3.2 Midwest Regional – Indianapolis, Indiana 3.3 West Regional - Glendale, Arizona 3.4 East Regional – Boston, Massachusetts 3.5 South Regional – Memphis, Tennessee 3.6 Final Four – Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan
4 Game summaries 4.1 Midwest Region 4.1.1 First round 4.1.2 Second round 4.1.3 Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen) 4.1.4 Regional final (Elite Eight) 4.2 West Region 4.2.1 First round 4.2.2 Second round 4.2.3 Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen) 4.2.4 Regional final (Elite Eight) 4.3 East Region 4.3.1 First round 4.3.2 Second round 4.3.3 Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen) 4.3.4 Regional final (Elite Eight) 4.4 South Region 4.4.1 First round 4.4.2 Second round 4.4.3 Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen) 4.4.4 Regional final (Elite Eight) 4.5 Final Four 4.5.1 Michigan State vs. Connecticut 4.5.2 Villanova vs. North Carolina 5 Record by conference 6 Television and radio 6.1 International broadcasters 7 See also 8 References 9 External links //

Tournament procedure For more details on this topic, see NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship#Tournament format.

Sixty-five teams will enter the tournament. Thirty of the teams will earn automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a postseason tournament, will go to its regular-season champion. The remaining 34 teams will be granted "at-large" bids by the NCAA Selection Committee. United States President Barack Obama fills out his picks for the NCAA Men's Div I Tournament. He picked North Carolina to win the National Championship when he shared his

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