Saturday Bracket Buster

When covering the college basketball games you have to start off with the Bracket Buster that ESPN has served up for us.


ESPN 2 @ Noon

Northern Iowa – 6 ½

Bucknell is a great team who was just promoted to the top 25 and that is always a good letdown spot for the team. Northern Iowa has beaten Iowa at home and should have no problem taking down Bucknell by double digits. Unranked home favorite over ranked team applies.

ESPNU @ 2:00

Butler +4.5

This one is going to be a close one down the stretch and in that case I like to do two things. Take the team with the better Free Throw percentage and the points and Butler owns both of these.

ESPN 2 @ 2:00

Wisc Milwaukee -3

Milwaukee was looking ahead to this one and got caught napping against Illinois Chicago and lost outright as 14 point favorites. This will keep them focused for this game. SW Missouri St drops in every statistical category when they play on the road.

ESPN 2 @ 6:00

So. Illinois -8

So. Illinois is a great home team and has been a money making 8-2 ATS in all lined home games this year. They are off a loss to Bradley and will make up the points they need to cover with a big edge in free throws in this game.

ESPN @ 1159

Fresno St. +10.5

These last two are exactly why Bracket Busters was put together. Fresno St. is the hotter teams of the two and they are on a winning streak, while Creighton has lost two straight and are now asking to cover ten points.

ESPNU @ 1000

Northwestern St. +10.5

This along with Fresno is my pick of the night, Utah st will get blind sided here and they will have a chance of losing outright, this game gets Northwestern St some of the national spotlight they may need to get the program jumpstarted.