2009 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament

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Year=2009


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Points=The 2009 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championships will commence March 22 2008 and conclude April 8 of that same year.

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, held in the city rather than the geographic area as a practice that has been used since 2005, will be held from March 28 to 31 at these sites:

*Trenton Regional: Sovereign Bank Arena, Trenton, New Jersey (Hosts: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Rider University).
*Raleigh Regional: RBC Center, Raleigh, North Carolina (Host: North Carolina State University).
*Oklahoma City Regional: Ford Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Host: Big 12 Conference).
*Berkeley Regional: Haas Pavilion, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California (Host: University of California and Pac-10 Conference).

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 24 at sixteen sites. The following were chosen prior to the expansion of the subregional sites from eight to sixteen:

*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

As per the expansion to sixteen subregional sites, the following sites were added in 2008:

*E. A. Diddle Arena, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky
*Jack Breslin Student Events Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
*United Spirit Arena, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
*Carver-Hawkeye Arena, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
*Edmund P. Joyce Center, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
*Bank of America Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
*Cox Arena, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
*Harry A. Gampel Pavilion, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

"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, 2009 at the Scottrade Center, in St. Louis, Missouri, hosted by the Missouri Valley Conference.

ee also

* 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
* 2009 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament