Bracket Buster Weekend!

[crunifan]

Tomorrow we see many teams of interest to us play one another, what are your thoughts on who wins and who you want to win? I bolded who I think will win.

In my opinion the biggest three games are:
Bucknell at Northern Iowa
George Mason at Wichita State
Missouri State at Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Louisiana Tech at Southern Illinois
Buffalo at Iona
Fresno State at Creighton
Akron at Nevada
Butler at Kent State
Marist at Old Dominion
Northwestern State at Utah State
Samford at Ohio
Albany at Virginia Commonwealth
Northern Arizona at Western Kentucky

[wannabegaucho]

Save for the UNI game, I'm rooting for the ezxact opposites of who you're rooting for.

The wannabe Evanstons will get it handed to them up in Logan (Translation - Northwestern State loses)

[grizband]

Tomorrow we see many teams of interest to us play one another, what are your thoughts on who wins and who you want to win? I bolded who I think will win.

In my opinion the biggest three games are:
Bucknell at Northern Iowa
George Mason at Wichita State
Missouri State at Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Louisiana Tech at Southern Illinois
Buffalo at Iona
Fresno State at Creighton
Akron at Nevada
Butler at Kent State
Marist at Old Dominion
Northwestern State at Utah State
Samford at Ohio
Albany at Virginia Commonwealth
Northern Arizona at Western Kentucky
What, no love for Montana? :)
Oral Roberts at Montana

[crunifan]

What, no love for Montana? :)
Oral Roberts at Montana

Sorry man, I just copy and pasted the games that were on ESPN's website. I know there are 50 some games this weekend. But, to answer your question, I DEFINITELY want Montana to win!:nod:

[TexasTerror]

Well, to each their own...I look forward to NW St vs Utah St and apparently, most agree...

"In an ESPN.com sports poll this week, the Northwestern State-Utah State game was voted as the BracketBusters game fans were "most looking forward to watching", gaining 48.2 percent of the 14,554 votes. Bucknell at Northern Iowa was second with 31.1 percent. The Demons were also voted "the team which has the most to gain from Bracketbusters", taking 45.5 percent to Bucknell's 15.2 percent." (SLC release 2/17/06)

[ISUMatt]

Illinois State @ Miami Ohio 3:30 CT

[Hansel]

Is the UNI game on TV?

[FargoBison]

Is the UNI game on TV?

The game will be on ESPN2 @ 11:05AM

[HiHiYikas]

Albany at Virginia Commonwealth
Probably going to this game, it's the only one I have any interest in, and, though I don't know much about Albany, I have to go with the Rams on this one.

[Pard4Life]

Tomorrow we see many teams of interest to us play one another, what are your thoughts on who wins and who you want to win? I bolded who I think will win.

In my opinion the biggest three games are:
Bucknell at Northern Iowa
George Mason at Wichita State
Missouri State at Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Louisiana Tech at Southern Illinois
Buffalo at Iona
Fresno State at Creighton
Akron at Nevada
Butler at Kent State
Marist at Old Dominion
Northwestern State at Utah State
Samford at Ohio
Albany at Virginia Commonwealth
Northern Arizona at Western Kentucky

What's with the 'midwest bias'?? xlolx

Of the games that matter, I going with Bucknell, Wichita St., UW-Millwaukee, So. Ill, Creighton, ODU, Utah St....

..geez now that I see it, I am midwest bias too.. well truth is MVC rocks this year. I just think Bucknell will win. What's the line? Let's say under 4.

[TexasTerror]

Probably going to this game, it's the only one I have any interest in, and, though I don't know much about Albany, I have to go with the Rams on this one.

You just missed it. Happened on Friday night, not Saturday...

RICHMOND, Va. - Senior forward Nick George scored 23 points and dished out four assists to lead VCU past Albany 70-67 in their Bracket Buster match-up Friday evening in front of a national television audience on ESPNU and a crowd of 6,684 in the Alltel Pavilion at the Stuart C. Siegel Center.

[Cocky]

The whole bracket busters thing is alot of nothing for nothing.

[TexasTerror]

The whole bracket busters thing is alot of nothing for nothing.

I disagree...

While there are many games (i.e SFA vs ULL) that don't do much, there are other games that do.

For the marquee games, it gives some of these teams national exposure to the members of the commitee and media that they probably would not have otherwise. Also, it's a big win for some of these teams late in the season that had great OOC results, but their conference results are a mixed bag because their conference is low in RPI, shows they are still a good team and could make all the difference between a 12 seed and a 14/15 seed. Think that's not a big deal? You have a better chance to win at 12 than you do at 14/15..

[TxSt02]

ot in uni game.

[TxSt02]

double ot now..

[TxSt02]

up by four with 2:50 left

[TxSt02]

eric coleman with uni is good...

[TxSt02]

uni is up by 3 with 1:06 left

[TxSt02]

up by four with 34 left

[TxSt02]

i think that i am going to pick uni as my tourney team...

[TxSt02]

uni wins in double ot over #24 bucknell

[wannabegaucho]

Congratulations UNI! I am elated to see you win over Bucknell, and I hope you do the same next year.

Now, on to rooting for Milwaukee.

[HiHiYikas]

You just missed it. Happened on Friday night, not Saturday...

RICHMOND, Va. - Senior forward Nick George scored 23 points and dished out four assists to lead VCU past Albany 70-67 in their Bracket Buster match-up Friday evening in front of a national television audience on ESPNU and a crowd of 6,684 in the Alltel Pavilion at the Stuart C. Siegel Center.
Hmm...I could have sworn the pocket schedules they gave out said Feb 18th. Oh well...guess that means we won't have to sneak out of the cookout early this afternoon.

[crunifan]

So far, so good for the MVC.

Three wins (UNI over Bucknell, Indiana State over Western Michigan, and Missouri State over Wisconsin-Milwaukee). And one loss (Illinois State lost to Miami (OH) by two).

Also, Southern Illinois is currently up 9-3 over Louisiana Tech with 15 minutes left in the first half. C'mon Valley, let's go for 9-1!!! :D

[wannabegaucho]

The Techsters sneak back and win it from Southern Illinois.

Congratulations to George Mason as well.

[crunifan]

Well, three Valley teams were eclipsed by three point games. Which, if Creighton wins, will put the Valley at 5-5. Not the best outcome in my opinion. I really think there is no way Southern Illinois should have lost to Louisiana Tech. George Mason is good though, and obviously showed that against the Shockers.

Drake and Evansville losses were almost givens. I hoped the Valley would finish 7-3, so I have to say today was pretty disappointing.

[wannabegaucho]

Unfortuneately, Fresno couldn't beat Creighton.