Saturday at 2 p.m.
2/15/2012 2:16:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Six teams will play at home and six will be on the road.
All 12 Southland games will be played Saturday, though a total of 13 BracketBusters games were selected to be televised by ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ESPN3 beginning Friday.
In total 142 teams will play 71 games in this year's BracketBusters event. The 10th annual event features teams from 16 conferences, the largest pool in the event's history and includes two teams that reached last year's Final Four.
UT-Arlington and Lamar will play their BracketBuster games on ESPN3. The 19-5 Mavericks visit Weber State Saturday at 7 p.m., Central, while the Cardinals visit George Mason earlier in the day at 3 p.m., Central. UT Arlington's game against Weber State (20-4, 12-1), the co-leader of the Big Sky Conference, was selected by ESPN as one of 13 BracketBusters games to appear on its networks, while the Southland Conference and the Colonial Athletic Association will jointly produce the Lamar-George Mason game on ESPN3. Lamar is 16-9 overall and 7-4 in the Southland. The Patriots are 21-6 and lead the CAA with a 13-2 record.
Southland BracketBusters Games - Feb. 18
Toledo at Sam Houston St., 2 p.m.
Campbell at Northwestern St., 2:30 p.m.
Lamar at George Mason, 3 p.m. (ESPN3)
Southeast Missouri St. at McNeese St., 3 p.m.
Central Arkansas at Louisiana Tech, 3:30 p.m.
IUPUI at Nicholls St., 3:30 p.m.
Tennessee-Martin at Southeastern La., 6 p.m.
High Point at Stephen F. Austin, 6 p.m.
UTSA at Georgia St., 6 p.m.
A&M-Corpus Christi at Central Michigan, 6 p.m.
UT Arlington at Weber State, 7 p.m. (ESPN3)
Texas State at South Dakota, 7 p.m.
Three Southland Conference teams have previously participated in four BracketBusters games. Northwestern State has played in two BracketBusters matchups and rode its first appearance in 2006 at Utah State to a first-round upset over Iowa in the NCAA tournament.
The Demons also met Tennessee Tech in a BracketBusters game.
Stephen F. Austin also played in 2006 and Sam Houston State played in 2007. While the conference is winless in its four previous BracketBusters games, which have all been played on the road, the league won all four of the guaranteed return games.
Tickets for Sam Houston's game with Toledo are available now online at www.gobearkats.com/tickets or at the SHSU athletic ticket office located in the Ron Mafrige Field House at Bowers Stadium. Ticket office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The ticket office telephone is (936) 294-1729.
