Bracketbusters 2013

[MRSGDG]

 

 

Announced tonight at 6:30 on ESPN.

Edited February 5, 2013 by MsGDG

[MRSGDG]

Vermont is playing Canisius ...if Twitter is to be believed

[UAalum72]

UVM gets a home game on ESPN3 vs. Canisius

[MRSGDG]

Last year they didnt announce all the games on ESPN..we had to wait for the list to come out.

[MRSGDG]

Fairfield per Santillo.

[uofalbany]

Wonderful. The team should call in sick.

[Phoenix]

Wonderful. The team should call in sick.

 

UAlbany or Fairfield? I'm confused.

[uofalbany]

I'd rather our young men take a break and rest, and get ready for the A East tourny during that period...

than play another game, especially against a fairfield type.

 

Call in sick so they don't have to waste their time. Bracketbuster has become ridiculous.

By now, it must be half of D1 plays in a bracket b game.

Edited February 5, 2013 by uofalbany

[Phoenix]

I'd rather our young men take a break and rest, and get ready for the A East tourny during that period...

than play another game, especially against a fairfield type.

 

Call in sick so they don't have to waste their time. Bracketbuster has become ridiculous.

By now, it must be half of D1 plays in a bracket b game.

 

Haha..unfortunately you don't get to decide after the games are picked. We agreed to be in it before the season started..so we're playing.

 

Maybe Fairfield hasn't been followed closely enough..but they're going to be a pretty big favorite in the game. Their record isn't eye-popping..but they're a very good team with a number of good wins and not really any bad losses..pending the result of tonight's game!

 

If we didn't get a TV game..I think this is the best opponent possible. A strong team just 2.5 hours away.

[UAalum72]

Game time is 1:00

 

http://www.fairfieldstags.com/news/2013/2/4/MBB_0204130321.aspx

 

Ratings are all over the map:

 

Sagarin has Stags about 9-point favorite, but they're almost equal to Loyola, with whom we were tied with 3 sec. to go

 

RealtimeRPI - FF 143, Albany 171

 

RealtimeRPI Power Ratings - Albany 116, FF 156

 

 

[sarge965]

Another MAAC team - meh

bracketbusters ran out of steam a few years ago

glad this is the end

[Dane Pound]

Fairfield isn't bad but it's hard to get too excited about a MAAC school. Still, a chance to represent the conference against the MAAC and root for Vermont to do the same. BB has become the AE - MAAC challenge the last couple of years.

 

Even the "top" games aren't that terrific although Creighton v. St. Marys should be a great game. I'm a big Matthew Dellavedova fan.

 

ESPN would be better off highlight some of the great mid-major conference games that occur organically instead of trying to manufacture excitement.

[MRSGDG]

‏@AndrewSantillo

"They've won 17 games, so enough said," Fairfield coach Sydney Johnson on UAlbany, two teams matched up for ESPNU#BracketBusters game

[haggyland]

In my humble opinion, one of the coolest mascots/team names in college sports.

[UAalum72]

Fairfield beats the 'aints by ten tonight.

 

Unlike the TUC, Webster Bank Arena only blocks off one end of the hockey seating. Their attendance ranges from 1300 to <3400.