Friday
Albany @ Boise St

Saturday
Northern Iowa @ Nevada
Ohio @ New Mexico St
Utah St @ Oral Roberts

Times and networks not announced.

Nevada was the featured segment, with a Fox/Fazekas interview and several highlights.

BYU has played both Utah State and Oral Roberts, beating them both in Provo. They were 2 of our toughest games this year.

Go Aggies. I hope you beat them (they are predicted to win their conference and make March Madness last I saw).

Oral Roberts could be the toughest opponent the WAC faces on Bracket Busters.

Looks like Nevada was locked out of the feature game and they drew Northern Iowa--which is a good opponent, but I'm sure Wolf Pack fans wanted to draw tougher.

Caleb Green has been on my college basketball fantasy team for the past few years now--he's a terrific player. But I think USU can hang.

To be honest, I expect NMSU and Boise to roll. I'm dissappointed with Fresno and Hawaii's collapse this season, both were looking good for television games about a month ago.

The Boise game will probably be on ESPNU on Friday. They have two time slots (7pm EST, ESPN2 and 9pm EST, ESPNU) so I'd expect the Boise game to be the late one.

I think three of the TV games will actually be on ESPN360, but the WAC has two teams that are pretty much guaranteed to be on TV (Nevada and NMST). USU has a shot, especially if they decide they want to actively feature current conference leaders.

WAC_FAN Wrote:Looks like Nevada was locked out of the feature game and they drew Northern Iowa--which is a good opponent, but I'm sure Wolf Pack fans wanted to draw tougher.
I'm dissappointed with Fresno and Hawaii's collapse this season, both were looking good for television games about a month ago.

I think most Nevada fans are very happy with getting UNI (although perhaps a bit nervous, with "Grant Stout/Eric Coleman" dredging up memories of "Nate Harris" and "Andrew Strait"). Southern Illinois was the only draw that would have been clearly better, and an SIU/Butler matchup is understandable.

Hawaii has been such a staple in the Bracket Buster, it almost doesn't feel the same without them. And a month ago, I would have bet anything Fresno would be in the mix.

mattsarz Wrote:The Boise game will probably be on ESPNU on Friday. They have two time slots (7pm EST, ESPN2 and 9pm EST, ESPNU) so I'd expect the Boise game to be the late one.

I think three of the TV games will actually be on ESPN360, but the WAC has two teams that are pretty much guaranteed to be on TV (Nevada and NMST). USU has a shot, especially if they decide they want to actively feature current conference leaders.

You have to be right about Boise.....but OUCH for the Albany fans.

I'm going to go out on a limb ;-) , and predict that 4 of Saturday's games on ESPN2 are SIU/Butler, UNI/Nevada, Bradley/VCU, and Holy Cross/Hofstra. Tough to pick a fifth game, but I suspect it will include a MAC team....I have my fingers crossed for Ohio/NMSU, but as long as all WAC teams avoid the dreaded ESPN360 spots, I'll be happy.

My guesses:
Friday
Winthrop at Missouri St., 7pm ESPN2
Albany at Boise St., 9pm ESPNU

Saturday
Old Dominion at Toledo, 1pm ESPNU
Holy Cross at Hofstra, 3pm ESPNU
Southern Illinois at Butler, 4pm ESPN2
Austin Peay at Akron, 5pm ESPNU
Bradley at VCU, 6pm ESPN2
CSU-Fullerton at Wright St., 7pm ESPNU
N. Iowa at Nevada, 8pm ESPN2
Utah St. at Oral Roberts, 10pm ESPN2
Ohio at New Mexico St., Midnight ESPN2

That leaves Ap St.-Wichita St., Drexel-Creighton and Kent St.-George Mason for the ESPN360 treatment. As much pub that Mason got for the Final Four run and Kent St.'s consistency at the mid-major level, neither one is in shape to have a chance as an at-large nor is at the top of their conference