San Marcos, Texas – The Texas State men's basketball team will play at Lamar for its Ramada BracketBusters game, announced today by ESPN. The Bobcats will compete in the 11th annual BracketBusters, a two-day men's college basketball event pitting potential NCAA Championship hopefuls against each other Feb. 22-23. The Bobcats and Cardinals play each other on Saturday, Feb. 23 at the Montagne Center. Game time is yet to be announced.
Texas State is currently 7-16 overall and tied for eighth in the Western Athletic Conference standings with a 3-8 league record. The Bobcats are led in scoring by junior forward who is averaging 18.0 points per game.
Lamar is 2-20 overall and 0-10 in the Southland Conference. Pat Knight is in his second season as head coach at Lamar. Stan Brown leads Lamar in scoring with an average of 10.8 points per game. The Cardinals two wins this season were over IUPUI and Long Island. Lamar is 1-5 at home this season at the Montagne Center.
ESPN2 will feature five BracketBusters games, while ESPNU and ESPN3 will house four games. The 13 BracketBusters matchups will be announced Monday, Jan. 30 with dates, times and networks. The television matchups are selected by ESPN, while a Committee of Conference Commissioners determines the additional non-televised games.
The 122-team field will feature teams from 13 conferences: 12 each from Big South, Mid-American Conference and Ohio Valley Conference; 11 from the Big Sky; 10 each from Big West, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Missouri Valley and Southland Conference; nine each from Horizon and Summit Leagues; six from the Western Athletic Conference; four from the Southern Conference; three from the MEAC; and two each from the America East and West Coast Conferences.
As part of the agreement, all 13 of the BracketBusters home teams in televised games, as well as the remaining 58 home squads, will play a return game at the home facility of their opponent in November or December of the 2013-14 season.
BracketBusters is part of ESPN's college basketball franchise programming, along with Feast Week presented by Lowe's, Holiday Hoops Presented by Kay Jewelers, Rivalry Week, Bracket Builder Week and Championship Week Presented by DICK'S Sporting Goods.
For more information on Bracketbusters, please visit www.espnbracketbusters.com.
