2009 NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament

2009 (2009) NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament
Teams	32
Finals site	Oman Arena; Jackson, Tennessee
Champions	Union University Bulldogs (4th title, 6th title game,; 10th Fab Four)
Runner-up	Lambuth Eagles (2nd title game,; 2nd Fab Four)
Semifinalists	Oklahoma Baptist Bison ; (1st Fab Four); Oklahoma City Stars ; (9th Fab Four);
Coach of the year	Mark Campbell (Union (TN))
Player of the year	Josephine Owino (Union (TN))
Charles Stevenson; Hustle Award	Chytearra Kintchen (Lambuth)
Chuck Taylor MVP	Josephine Owino (Union (TN))
Top scorer	Jana Cross (Freed–Hardeman); (57 points)
NAIA Division I ; women's tournaments
«2008	2010»

The 2009 NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament was the tournament held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of women's college basketball among its Division I members in the United States and Canada for the 2008–09 basketball season.

Union (TN) defeated Lambuth in the championship game, 73–63, to claim the Bulldogs' fourth NAIA national title and first since 2006.

The tournament was played at the Oman Arena in Jackson, Tennessee.^[1]

Qualification edit

The tournament field remained fixed at thirty-two teams, which were sorted into one of four quadrants and seeded from 1 to 8 within each quadrant.

The tournament continued to utilize a simple single-elimination format.