Selection Sunday Live Coverage

- Date: March 15, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. EST
- TV coverage: CBS
- Committee members and chairpersons are rotated frequently
- When teams are considered in discussions before announcement, members from conference of teams must leave meeting room
- Teams from the same conference cannot meet until the Elite Eight/Regional Finals
- Teams that fail to qualify for the tournament are considered for the National Invitation Tournament

Selection Sunday is the day the process of seeding and bracketing teams for college basketball's NCAA Men's Basketball Championships takes place.
Selection Sunday 2009 was held on March 15, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. EST and was broadcast live on CBS.
Selection Process
31 teams will automatically be in the tournament based on their performance in their conference championship tournaments. 34 more teams will be selected by a committee, based on their RPI ratings, there season's record and strength of schedule. Many of the final teams trying to get into the tournament are considered to be "on the bubble" and will not know they have been selected until they see it announced on TV.

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NCAA South Region Bracket 2009

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{{{RD3|Regional Semifinals March 27 FedExForum, Memphis}}}

{{{RD4|Finals March 29 FedExForum, Memphis}}}

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NCAA South Region Bracket 2009 Blogs and Articles
- StateNews.com: Spartans No. 2 seed in mock NCAA selection (February 17, 2009)
- Bleacher Report: Predicting the NCAA Tournament Bracket (February 16, 2009)
- STLtoday.com: Coaches get inside look at selections (February 15, 2009)
- ESPN Video: South Region (Time: 5:03)

NCAA East Region Bracket 2009

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NCAA Midwest Region Bracket 2009

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NCAA Midwest Region Bracket 2009 Blogs and Articles
- Bracketography.com: NCAA Tournament Predictions (February 15, 2009)
- ESPN: Bracketology (February 16, 2009)
- Rivals.com: 2008 College Basketball Midwest Bracket
- ESPN Video: Midwest Region (Time: 3:57)
NCAA West Region Bracket 2009 News
- SI.com: Why the NCAA tournament should... (February 17, 2009)
- Bleacher Report: Predicting the NCAA Tournament Bracket (February 16, 2009)
- PhoenixRegional.org: 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball West Regional
- ESPN Video: West Region (Time: 4:52)

NCAA West Region Bracket 2009

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Live Coverage of 2008 Selection Sunday
- 6:52 PM ET: COMMENTARY: Wouldn't it be great if college football did this with 16 teams?
- 6:51 PM ET: Explaining Arizona State not getting in even though they beat Arizona twice, they indicated the lack of strong out-of-conference schedule and lack of quality wins outside the Pac-10.
- 6:50 PM ET: Asking about the Big East getting 8 teams, O'Connor says they don't factor in the conference rankings, but only team rankings in the RPI.
- 6:48 PM ET: "We had 5 contingency plans to deal with the fact that two teams under .500 for the season (Illinois and Georgia) were playing for conference championships."
- 6:47 PM ET: So on CBS, they'll be interviewing the head of the NCAA Selection Committee, Tom O'Connor...
- 6:44 PM ET: Also not making the tournament that has a gripe are Dayton, Arizona State, and Virginia Tech - meanwhile the Big East gets 8, count 'em, 8 teams into the tournament.
- 6:40 PM ET: Arizona and Kentucky got in on reputation, while Florida (two-time defending national champion) does not make it.
- 6:35 PM ET: Duke is the 2 seed, and in Washington DC on Thursday they face Belmont. Meanwhile, the 7th seed is West Virginia, and they will Arizona is the 10th seed. The 3 seed is Xavier, and in Washington on Thursday, they will face Georgia, who won the SEC (14th seed?). Meanwhile, Purdue is the 6th seed, and they will face Baylor.
- 6:32 PM ET: Thursday in Anaheim, UCLA is the top seed and they face Mississippi Valley State (Jerry Rice's old team), while in the 8-9 game, BYU faces Texas A&M. In Tampa on Friday, Drake is shockingly a 5 seed, and they face Western Kentucky. The 4th seed is UConn, and they will take on 13th seed San Diego.
- 6:30 PM ET: Still one more region to go, and some of the trends I'm noticing so far: West Coast Conference getting 3 teams in... Villanova and Oregon getting in...
- 6:27 PM ET: Texas is the 2 seed, and on Friday in Little Rock, they will face 15th seed Austin Peay. Meanwhile, the 7 seed is Miami (FL) and they will play Saint Mary's, who gets an at-large bid. On Thursday in Anaheim, the 3 seed Stanford will face Cornell, from the Ivy League. Meanwhile, the 6 seed Marquette will take on 11th seed Kentucky.
- 6:24 PM ET: South Region: Friday in Little Rock: Memphis as top seed will face UT Arlington. In the 8-9 game, Mississippi State will take on Oregon from the Pac-10. In the 5-12 game on Thursday in Denver, Michigan State, the 5th seed, will take on 12th seed Temple. The 4 seed is Pittsburgh from the Big East, and they play Oral Roberts, the 13 seed.
- 6:18 PM ET: Georgetown is the 2 seed, and they face UMBC. Also Friday in Raleigh, 7th seed is Gonzaga and they will face Davidson, who is the 10th seed, with a 22-game winning streak. Wisconsin is the 3rd seed in the Midwest, and on Thursday in Omaha, they will face the 14th seeded Cal State Fullerton. The 6th seed is USC, and they will face the 11th seeded Kansas State, which means battle of exciting freshmen OJ Mayo and Michael Beasley.
- 6:15 PM ET: Now the Midwest Region: Thursday games in Omaha: Kansas will face 16th seed Portland State. Meanwhile in the 8-9 game, UNLV is the 8 seed and they will face the 9th seeded Kent State out of the MAC. On Friday in Tampa, the 5th seed is Clemson, and they will face the 12th seeded Villanova. Meanwhile, Vanderbilt is the 4th seed in the Midwest, and they will face 13th seeded Siena.
- 6:12 PM ET: The 2 seed is Tennessee, and on Friday in Birmingham, they will face American University. Meanwhile in the 7-10 game, Butler will face 10th seed South Alabama. Also in that half of the bracket, the 3 seed is Louisville, and they will face 14 seed Boise State, as these games are also in Birmingham. Then the 6 seed is Oklahoma, and they face the 11th seeded St. Joseph's.
- 6:09 PM ET: Here we go: UNC will face Mt. St. Mary's & Coppin State play-in game. In the 8-9 game, Indiana will face Arkansas. Those are in Raleigh. 5-12 game is Notre Dame taking on George Mason, while in the 4-13 game in Denver, Washington State will play Winthrop.
- 6:08 PM ET: Waiting for East brackets to be revealed
- 6:05 PM ET: No surprises about the top seeds, especially because Tennessee lost in the SEC Tournament semifinals.
- 6:03 PM ET: North Carolina will also be the top seed in the NCAA East Region Bracket. The Memphis Tigers are top seed in the NCAA South Region Bracket. UCLA is number one in the NCAA West Region Bracket and Kansas will be number one seed in the NCAA Midwest Region Bracket.
- 6:01 PM ET: North Carolina is the number one overall seed.
- 6:00 PM ET: As we get started, we know already that the NCAA Play-in Game will be between Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers and the Coppin State Eagles on Tuesdaqy in Dayton.

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