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During the month of March college basketball games culminate in the championship game. The series of elimination rounds takes place over three weeks in various U.S. cities. For 2009 14 cities will host March Madness games including Greensboro,custom bobblehead, NC; Kansas City,Cleaning Vintage Wedding Dresses, MI; Philadelphia, PA; and Portland, OR. The series of games starts March 17 and ends April 6.

The 2009 NCAA Men�s Basketball tournament begins on Selection Sunday when the brackets are released; 65 teams will qualify. There are many factors play in how a team is selected for the tournament including their record,., Ratings Index Percentage (RPI),personalized bobbleheads, strength of schedule and wins against top 25 and top 50 teams and losses. The process is a complex one and thousands of humans and computers study and analyze it. For more on how the teams are judged for inception into the tournament,Principles To Remember In Menu Printing, read sports magazines like the Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Sports Weekly and ESPN The Magazine for more.

A selection committee of writers and analysts meet to decide which teams will play in the tournament. There are East,personalized bobblehead, Midwest,customize bobblehead, South and West sections of the bracket. The 64th and 65th rated teams play the first official game of the tournament. And for the next three weeks the eliminating games are played; the last game before the championship game�the semi-finals--is known as the Final Four game. The Final Four is held on Saturday with the 2009 NCAA Men�s basketball tournament concluding on Monday night. The Final Four has become one of the U.S.�s most foremost sporting events.

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In recent years, fans enjoy friendly betting,customized bobbleheads, choosing their own brackets; in fact some might say the effort has become a national pastime, generating countless office pools and neighborhood pools.

All games of the tournament are broadcast on the CBS network except for the opening round game, which broadcasts on ESPN. Sports magazines like Sports Illustrated and ESPN the magazine devote countless pages on coverage each year to this momentous event while even news magazines like Time, The Week and Newsweek often get in on the action with weekly updates.