Ags get ESPN BracketBuster game

Utah State will be one of four WAC teams to have its BracketBuster game televised. Though the matchup has not yet been announced, ESPN did chose the Aggies as on of the teams it wants on television.

Here’s the press release:

Four teams from the Western Athletic Conference have been selected to
participated in BracketBusters ESPN television games. Louisiana Tech,
Nevada, New Mexico State and Utah State will each participate in one of the
11 available ESPN network games. The matchups for the four teams will be
announced today on ESPNU at 6:30 p.m. ET

The other five WAC teams that were not selected to compete in a
BracketBusters television game will play non-conference opponents on
Saturday, Feb. 20. Those matchups are as follows:

UC Santa Barbara at Fresno State
San Jose State at Montana State
Long Beach State at Idaho
UC Davis at Boise State
Cal Poly at Hawai’i

The eighth annual BracketBusters event, a two-day men’s college basketball
extravaganza pitting potential NCAA Tournament hopefuls against each other
Feb. 19-20, will feature 11 nationally televised games-on either ESPN2 or
ESPNU-selected from a pool of 98 teams. For the fifth straight year, ESPNU,
the 24-hour college sports network, will televise five BracketBusters games
while ESPN2 will televise six contests. The 11 BracketBusters matchups will
be announced today on ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports network, at 6:30
p.m. ET.