2Nd National Regular Season Tv Game For Unt ?

[MeanGreen61]

http://northtexas.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=2741&tid=136125472&mid=136125472&sid=1211&style=2

[NT03]

MGS

[chrisfisher]

Is this same nationally televised announced early? or a new one? I cannot recall.

[MeanGreen61]

Arkansas State at UNTis among scheduled games on Jan. 22 being considered for an ESPN2 broadcast of one Sun Belt men's game that that day

[Censored by Laurie]

Dear Wright Waters,

Sun Belt...Bracketbuster.

Thanks,

CBL

[CMJ]

Dear Wright Waters,

Sun Belt...Bracketbuster.

Thanks,

CBL

I'm not sure I like that idea. Reading some message boards of schools involved in that, many are disappointed in their matchups. ESPN bends over backwards to get about 8 marquee TV games and then there's dozens of ones fans don't care about.

[chrisfisher]

Arkansas State at UNTis among scheduled games on Jan. 22 being considered for an ESPN2 broadcast of one Sun Belt men's game that that day

Thanks. I viewed the second link, not the first, and it didn't have this. That would great to have 2 nationally televised games!!

[Hilltopper2k]

I'm not sure I like that idea. Reading some message boards of schools involved in that, many are disappointed in their matchups. ESPN bends over backwards to get about 8 marquee TV games and then there's dozens of ones fans don't care about.

WKU did the bracketbuster a few years running a while back. The TV games are pretty much based on RPI at the time of the selections. If you get a TV game its a great deal. But like you said only a handful of teams get the TV games and more than a hundred participants do not. More often than not they pair you up with a team that you do not want a home and home with. For example we had to do a return game with Northern Arizona (which is not only hard to get to but is at a higher altitude than Denver). The chumps from No. Arizona beat our '07-'08 team on a last second shot.

The point is... odds are you can get better home and homes without the bracket buster. There is a reason that you don't see Gonzaga in the BB.

Edited September 2, 2010 by Hilltopper2k