The 2009 MAAC men's basketball tournament was an NCAA college basketball tournament held at the
Times Union Center in
Albany, New York on March 6–9, 2009, to decide the
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion. The winner,
Siena advanced to the
2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
The 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament in which 65 schools competed to determine the national champion of the men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2008–09 basketba ...
, a 65-team event to decide the national champion of
Division I college basketball. Siena received a No. 9 seed and upset No. 8 seed
Ohio State 74–72 in double overtime, then were defeated by No. 1 seed
Louisville 79–72 in the second round.
Seeds
All 10 teams in the conference participated in the Tournament. The top six teams received byes to the quarterfinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
Schedule
Bracket
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2008–09 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball season
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MAAC men's basketball tournament
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