<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A showdown between Bucknell and Northern Iowa (No. 24 ESPN/USA Today, No. 25 AP) headlines the 13 BracketBusters presented by eBay matchups announced Monday. The games will be televised on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN360 over two days -- Friday, Feb. 17 and Saturday, Feb. 18. Game times and network assignments will be announced on Feb. 7. The 26-team field includes 14 schools that played in the postseason last year, including nine NCAA Tournament teams. The matchups ? Bucknell at Northern Iowa ? George Mason at Wichita State ? Missouri State at Wisconsin-Milwaukee ? 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</div> http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2312354 Definitely a lot of Intriguing matchups that I'm anxious to see. Two of the best mid-majors will go at it in Bucknell-Northern Iowa and one of the more underrated mid-majors in George Mason will take on Wichita State. So I'm ready to see how good some of these teams really are.
My favorite is probably between NW St.-Utah St. or Akron-Nevada, Akron is suppose to be good from what I've heard....
Northern Iowa-Bucknell was one of the better games of the year! Northern Iowa forward Eric Coleman tied the game up with 6 seconds left in regulation to send it to overtime...Bucknell looked to have it won in the first overtime but with 2.8 seconds left, Donald Brown threw the inbounds pass away...UNI guard Erik Crawford then hit a fadeaway jumper to tie it up with .8 seconds remaining. Charles Lee would hit a basket with 13 seconds to give Northern Iowa a 63-61 lead...Bucknell would miss a shot and UNI would hold on to win it 65-61.
