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The 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was 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 concluded with the championship game on April 6 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, where the University of North Carolina defeated Michigan State to become the champion. The 2009 tournament marked the first time not only for a Final Four had a minimum seating capacity of 70,000 but also by having most of the tournament in the February Sweeps of the Nielsen Ratings due to the digital television transition in the United States on June 12, 2009, which also made this the last NCAA Basketball Tournament, in all three divisions, to air in analog television. The University of Detroit Mercy hosted the Final Four, which was the 71st edition. Prior to the start of the tournament, the top ranked team was Louisville in both the AP Top 25 and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Polls, followed by North Carolina, Memphis, and Pittsburgh.〔(2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Mar. 16) on ESPN.com )〕 Only the Tar Heels of North Carolina were the regional winners and played in the Final Four. The Tar Heels completed one of the most dominant runs in the tournament's history by winning each of their games by at least twelve points. 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. Four schools made their NCAA tournament debut, all respective conference champions: Binghamton (America East), Morgan State (MEAC), Stephen F. Austin (Southland), and North Dakota State (Summit), a school in its first season of Division I eligibility. ==Tournament procedure== Sixty-five teams were selected for the tournament. Thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a postseason tournament, went to , its regular season champion. The remaining 34 teams were granted "at-large" bids by the NCAA Selection Committee. Two teams play an opening-round game, popularly called the "play-in game". The winner of that game advances to the main draw of the tournament as a 16 seed and plays a top seed in one of the regionals. The 2009 game was played on Tuesday, March 17, at the University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio, as it has since its inception in 2001. All 64 teams were seeded 1 to 16 within their regions; the winner of the play-in game automatically received a 16 seed. The Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65. SEC commissioner Mike Slive served his last year as chairman of the committee. The first and second round games were played at the following sites: ;First and Second Rounds: Thursday and Saturday, March 19 and 21, 2009 :Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina (host: Atlantic Coast Conference) :Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri (host: Big 12 Conference) :Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (host: St. Joseph's University) :Rose Garden, Portland, Oregon (host: University of Oregon) ;First and Second Rounds: Friday and Sunday, March 20 and 22, 2009 :Taco Bell Arena, Boise, Idaho (host: Boise State University) :University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio (host: University of Dayton) :American Airlines Arena, Miami, Florida (host: Florida International University) :Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota (host: University of Minnesota) The four regionals are officially named after their areas, a practice which resumed in 2007. Between 2004 and 2006, the regionals were named for their host cities. The following were the sites for the 2009 regionals: ;Regionals: Thursday and Saturday, March 26 and 28, 2009 :East, TD Banknorth Garden, Boston, Massachusetts (host: Boston College) :West, University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona (host: Arizona State University) ;Regionals: Friday and Sunday, March 27 and 29, 2009 :South, FedExForum, Memphis, Tennessee (host: University of Memphis) :Midwest, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana (hosts: Horizon League & Butler University) Regional winners advanced to the Final Four, hosted at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan by the University of Detroit Mercy on April 4 (semifinals) and April 6 (National Championship). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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