2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament

Infobox NCAA Basketball Conference Tournament
Year=2009
Conference=Big East
Gender=Men's


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Arena=Madison Square Garden
City=New York City
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Points=The 2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, will take place in March 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Its winner will receive the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament. This is the first Big East tournament to include all 16 of the conference's teams. The teams finishing 9 through 16 in the regular season standings will play first round games, while teams 5 through 8 will receive a bye to the second round. The top 4 teams during the regular season will receive a bye to the quarterfinals. [cite news |url= http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Sports/2007/11/07/big_east_tournament_expands_to_16_teams/9037/ |title= Big East tournament expands to 16 teams |work= [http://www.upi.com United Press International] |date= November 7, 2007 |accssdate= 2008-03-12]

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External links

* [http://www.bigeast.org/ Big East website]
* [http://www.bigeast.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=19400&ATCLID=1394567&KEY=&DB_OEM_ID=19400&DB_LANG=&IN_SUBSCRIBER_CONTENT= 2008 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament website]