Bracket Buster event to end after 2012?

[BostonWu]

Let's hope all the top tier non-bcs schools are gathering to fill the scheduling gaps going forward.

[Dave Stalwart]

I heard they were keeping it but they are just changing the name to ballbusters to reflect its actual purpose more accurately.

It maybe it was balloonbusters...

[ShockerEngr]

Understandable that ESPN wishes to drop BB with all the recent departures.

What's to become of all this joy if the replacement game features an opponent with an RPI of 200+? Not only us but some of the Valley teams that don't attempt to schedule aggresively? Is this a boon to the Valley's comprehensive RPI.

With the direction it's been heading, odds were going to be that it would be adding at least one RPI 200+ game a year, possibly two for a bunch of the valley.

[giskard]

It is annoying that the two most meaningful Bracketbusters games mentioned in the article are ones the Shocks lost!

[ShockerFever]

The original Bracketbusters had Gonzaga and Butler in it and was limited to about 20-30 teams. That was pretty legitimate. What it transformed to was a clusterf**k of crap. I'll be honest. We did get some pretty good games out of it - Mason, VCU, Utah State, even Davidson. I don't know how easy it is to get home and homes with schools with that kind of geography. Let's hope we can. But it is a good day that our fates aren't sealed with the heads of ESPN anymore. Somebody's listening or reading somewhere...

[wsushox1]

Nice to see the Wichita Eagle getting some positive Pub.

[C0|dB|00ded]

Nice to see the Wichita Eagle getting some positive Pub.

Wichita Eagle? Never heard of it. Oh.. you mean the newspaper that hilariously tried to charge its readers to peruse their sophomorically edited tripe?


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[ShockerPhi]

Hey don't take it out on the Eagle. I like to weigh the entire blame on Bob Lutz The Putz

[WuShock Reaper]

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/69795/3-point-shot-gonzaga-eying-big-east

"...2. Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall, formerly of Winthrop, had kind words for the BracketBusters when he said the event “was good if you were in contention for the tourney and the national television exposure helped the nation to realize the quality of some non-BCS programs." I was a fan of BracketBusters at the beginning, but wanted more participation, not less. When the Colonial Athletic Association checked out of the event or was not in the event, I didn’t see how it would be able to have long-term success. I can tell you this: These matchups were given a lot of thought, and the conference commissioners and those in ESPN programming didn’t take them lightly. This is ultimately another casualty of conference alignment...."

[rrshock]

Im glad this is over with. Now on to that plan I suggested. WSU has got to fill ywo more games a year now, hopefully with quality opponents.

[DUShock]

More forward thinking from the jack hole Commish Elgin, riding the Titanic into the iceberg inspite of all the iceberg warnings.

[ShoxFan45]

Nice analysis by Sully.

http://blogs.kansas.com/shockwaves/2012/12/12/what-bracketbusters-did-for-wichita-state/

[WuShock Reaper]

Nice analysis by Sully.


http://blogs.kansas.com/shockwaves/2...wichita-state/

That was well done. Now looking forward to our two top 75 RPI teams each and every year. I won't be holdomg my breath, but if it does happen, I will be more than willing to eat a little, take that back, eat a lotta crow.