2009 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament - Subregionals

Subregionals

Baton Rouge Columbus College Park Duluth Lubbock Los Angeles Piscataway Bowling Green East Lansing Iowa City South Bend Seattle San Diego Storrs Chattanooga 2009 NCAA subregionals

Once again, the system is the same as the Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, with the exception that only 64 teams went and there was no play-in game. Automatic bids were secured by 31 conference champions and 33 at-large bids.

The subregionals, which used the "pod system", keeping most teams either at or close to the home cities, was held from 21 March to 24 at sixteen sites. The following were chosen in July 2006, prior to the re-expansion of the subregional sites from eight to sixteen:

• The Pit, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Host: University of New Mexico)
• Pete Maravich Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Host: Louisiana State University)
• Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio (Host: The Ohio State University)
• Comcast Center, College Park, Maryland (Host: University of Maryland, College Park)
• Arena at Gwinnett Center, Duluth, Georgia (Host: University of Georgia)
• United Spirit Arena, Lubbock, Texas (Host: Texas Tech University)
• Galen Center, Los Angeles, California (Host: University of Southern California)
• Louis Brown Athletic Center, Piscataway, New Jersey (Host: Rutgers University)

As per the return to the 16-site subregional format, the following sites were added in 2008:

• E. A. Diddle Arena, Bowling Green, Kentucky (Host: Western Kentucky University)
• Jack Breslin Student Events Center, East Lansing, Michigan (Host: Michigan State University)
• Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City, Iowa (Host: University of Iowa)
• Edmund P. Joyce Center, South Bend, Indiana (Host: University of Notre Dame)
• Bank of America Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion, Seattle, Washington (Host: University of Washington)
• Cox Arena, San Diego, California (Host: San Diego State University)
• Harry A. Gampel Pavilion, Storrs, Connecticut (Host: University of Connecticut)
• McKenzie Arena, Chattanooga, Tennessee (Host: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)