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, 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. SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreakerTiebreaker 21Siena16–22Niagara14–43Rider12–64Manhattan9–91–1 vs Fairfield1–1 vs Rider5Fairfield9–91–1 vs Manhattan0–2 vs Rider6Saint Peter's8–107Iona7–111–1 vs Loyola1–1 vs Niagara8Loyola (MD)7–111–1 vs Iona0–2 vs Niagara9Canisius4–142–0 vs Marist10Marist4–140–2 vs Canisius
Schedule SessionGameTime* Matchup#ScoreTelevision First round – Friday, March 611 7:30 pm No. 8 Loyola vs No. 9 Canisius 68–74MAAC-TV2 9:30 pm No. 7 Iona vs No. 10 Marist 40–43 Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 7232:30 pm No. 4 Manhattan vs No. 5 Fairfield 61–68 MSG245:00 pm No. 1 Siena vs No. 9 Canisius 77–52 MSG Quarterfinals – Saturday, March 7357:30 pm No. 2 Niagara vs No. 10 Marist 79–50 MSG+610:00 pm No. 3 Rider vs No. 6 Saint Peter's 67–58 MSG2 Semifinals – Sunday, March 8476:00 pm No. 1 Siena vs No. 5 Fairfield 80–65 MSG288:30 pm No. 2 Niagara vs No. 3 Rider 93–89 2OT MSG+ Championship – Monday, March 9599:00 pm No. 1 Siena vs No. 2 Niagara 77–70 ESPN2 *Game times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
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