http://games.basketballstate.com/66467>Austin Peay at Akron
http://games.basketballstate.com/66476>Ball State at Illinois State
http://games.basketballstate.com/66480>Bowling Green at Morehead State
http://games.basketballstate.com/66456>Bradley at Virginia Commonwealth (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66460>Cal State Fullerton at Wright State (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66493>California-Irvine at San Francisco
http://games.basketballstate.com/66492>California-Riverside at Idaho
http://games.basketballstate.com/66446>Canisius at Coastal Carolina
http://games.basketballstate.com/66458>Central Michigan at Illinois-Chicago
http://games.basketballstate.com/66449>Cleveland State at Cal State Northridge
http://games.basketballstate.com/66463>Colgate at Marist
http://games.basketballstate.com/66468>Detroit at Buffalo
http://games.basketballstate.com/66474>Drexel at Creighton (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66459>Eastern Illinois at Loyola (Ill.)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66461>Eastern Kentucky at Youngstown State
http://games.basketballstate.com/66450>Eastern Washington at California-Santa Barbara
http://games.basketballstate.com/66453>Elon at Georgia State
http://games.basketballstate.com/66482>Evansville at Samford
http://games.basketballstate.com/66448>Hawaii at Long Beach State
http://games.basketballstate.com/66454>Holy Cross at Hofstra (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66451>Iona at Delaware
http://games.basketballstate.com/66487>Jacksonville State at Chattanooga
http://games.basketballstate.com/66466>James Madison at Siena
http://games.basketballstate.com/66452>Kent State at George Mason (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66464>Liberty at Niagara
http://games.basketballstate.com/66483>Louisiana Tech at Southeast Missouri
http://games.basketballstate.com/66484>Loyola (Md.) at Tennessee State
http://games.basketballstate.com/66455>Maine at Northeastern
http://games.basketballstate.com/66469>Manhattan at Eastern Michigan
http://games.basketballstate.com/66477>Miami (Oh.) at Indiana State
http://games.basketballstate.com/66465>Murray State at Rider
http://games.basketballstate.com/66488>North Carolina-Wilmington at North Carolina-Greensboro
http://games.basketballstate.com/66494>Northern Iowa at Nevada (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66489>Northwestern State at Tennessee Tech
Ohio at New Mexico State (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66471>Old Dominion at Toledo (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66444>Pacific at Montana
http://games.basketballstate.com/66447>Portland State at Cal Poly
http://games.basketballstate.com/66481>Saint Peter`s at Tennessee-Martin
http://games.basketballstate.com/66491>Sam Houston State at Fresno State
http://games.basketballstate.com/66445>San Jose State at Northern Arizona
http://games.basketballstate.com/66457>Southern Illinois at Butler (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66486>Towson at Bucknell
http://games.basketballstate.com/66473>Utah State at Oral Roberts (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66472>Valparaiso at Western Michigan
http://games.basketballstate.com/66462>William & Mary at Fairfield
http://games.basketballstate.com/66478>Winthrop at Missouri State (TV)
http://games.basketballstate.com/66470>Wisconsin-Green Bay at Northern Illinois
http://games.basketballstate.com/66475>Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Drake
Here, at last, are the winners of our first annual Bally's BracketBusters Racket. With 51 matchups to pick correctly, it was certainly a puzzle wrapped in an enigma toasted slightly and served on a corn-dusted kaiser roll. Suffice it to say, nobody got them all right. The average was six.
But someone got 15 of them right, and that was good enough for first place among the 93 entries. Your winner is Doug R., a Durham, N.C. resident who missed all but one of the TV games but made his primary hay on the non-televised contests. Second place goes to Winthrop afficionado Jeremy D. from Summerville, SC (who in fact won our Final Exam contest two years ago), with 10. There were five people with nine correct, but invoking the tiebreaker (time of entry) we pulled out Jonathan E. from Boone, N.C., who wistfully and wishfully sent his Appalachian State Mountaineers to Butler. Sorry, Jonathan.
And yeah, what's with all the Carolinians? It's like American Idol and Alabama or something. Just further proof that folks down there know their hoops.
Well, that's it for the Buster contest... thanks to all who entered!
