July 7, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee has named NC State and Raleigh's RBC Center as one of four regional sites for the 2009 NCAA Championships. Those sites were selected by the Administrative Committee of the NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet. The announcement made on Thursday, July 6, comes as a precedent to NC State's commitment as one of eight first and second round sites for the 2007 NCAA Division I Championship scheduled for March 17-20, 2007.

Cities chosen to host first- and second-round games in 2009 include Albuquerque, N.M.; Baton Rouge, La.; College Park, Md.; Columbus, Ohio; Duluth, Ga.; Lubbock, Texas; Los Angeles, Calif.; and Piscataway, N.J. The four regionals are Berkeley, Calif.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Raleigh, N.C.; and Trenton, N.J. St. Louis will host the 2009 Women's Final Four.

The following regional sites will host games either Saturday, March 28, and Monday, March 30 or Sunday, March 29 and Tuesday, March 31, 2009:

Site/Host(s)/City
Haas Pavilion (11,896)/University of California, Berkeley/Berkeley, Calif.
Ford Center (18,929)/Big 12 Conference/Oklahoma City, Okla.
RBC Center (19,722)/North Carolina State University/Raleigh, NC
Sovereign Bank Arena (8,500)/Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Rider University/Trenton, NJ

The NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee also selected NC State to serve as host and the RBC Center to serve as the venue for one of the eight first- and second-round sites of the 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship. NC State last hosted the first and second rounds in 2003 and the RBC Center hosted the women's first and second rounds in 2001. The exact dates and times will be announced at a later date. However, the two rounds will either take place on Saturday, March 17 and Monday, March 19 or Sunday, March 18 and Tuesday, March 20, 2007.