Sept. 16, 2009: President Myles Brand dies of cancer. James L. Isch, formerly an NCAA senior vice president and chief financial officer, is later named interim president. September 16, 2009 44
2009: Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, becomes the NCAA’s first member school outside the United States, joining Division II. September 1, 2009 39
April 17-18, 2009: Georgia’s Courtney Kupets wins four individual titles to bring her career total to a record nine titles in the National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships. April 17, 2009 47
April 6, 2009: An NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament record crowd of 72,922 attends the championship game of the Men’s Final Four at Ford Field in Detroit. North Carolina defeats Michigan State 89-72 to win the national championship. The attendance for the national semifinals two days earlier was 72,456. April 6, 2009 47
