VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4], 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 23:52:57 02/25/03 Tue
Author: Menzies
Subject: Bracker Buster Saturday

I hope the MAAC is pushing Manhattan and whoever ends up having the second best season next year for the bracket buster games if it is continued. MAAC gets some publicity and recognition. Plus it would be interesting to see how we stack up.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[> Re: Bracker Buster Saturday -- JoeStag, 08:26:01 02/26/03 Wed

I agree, the MAAC Should pursue this, and we should try to get as many schools involved as possible. I think the schools are picked at the beginning of the year, as it counts as an OOC game. Our MAAC Champion and all NIT representatives would be the logical choices. Here are the breakdown of this years teams and leagues.

The 18-team field will feature four teams each from the Mid-American Conference, Missouri Valley Conference and Western Athletic Conference and three from the Horizon League, one from the Big West Conference and from the Sun Belt.

The other teams are Gonzaga, Tulsa, Creighton, Ball State, Bowling Green, Illinois-Chicago, Detroit, Kent State, Fresno State, Louisiana Tech, Hawaii, Marshall, Illinois State, Southern Illinois, Northern Iowa, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UC Santa Barbara and Western Kentucky.


[ Edit | View ]

[> [> Re: Bracker Buster Saturday -- Iowa, 11:34:25 02/26/03 Wed

If Northern Iowa played in it the Stags would surely qualify has they are a better team for sure!
Looks like the Stags will have a bye with 1 more win and a 2 seed with 2 wins


[ Edit | View ]

[> Re: Bracker Buster Saturday -- GuyF, 08:33:48 02/26/03 Wed

I've heard that Iona was aggressively trying to sell themselves as a legit team to be part of this next year (which is true). Last I heard (though this is going back a couple of months now) is that our potential foe could be the College of Charleston. However, my info may be dated here, as I have heard nothing new on it in a while.


[ Edit | View ]

[> [> Re: Bracker Buster Saturday -- Tony, 09:32:04 02/26/03 Wed

The bracket buster is really a attempt of ESPN to market games it was already commited to. For instance say the Hozizon had a contrat for a certain number of games and so did say the Missouri confence, ESPN just matched the 2 conference members up, satisfied its contract and called the event bracket buster. In other words a made for TV event. Sice the MAAC doesn't have that type of agreement with ESPN, don't look for a MAAC team in the bracket buster anytime soon


[ Edit | View ]


Forum timezone: GMT-5
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.