The University of Akron Athletics
Men's Basketball to Face Oral Roberts in 2012 Sears BracketBusters
January 30 | Men's Basketball
AKRON, Ohio – The Akron Zips will face Oral Roberts in the 2012 Sears BracketBusters event, taking on the Golden Eagles in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 2 p.m. ET.
The game will air live on ESPN or ESPN2. The Zips (14-7, 6-1 MAC) and the Golden Eagles (20-4, 12-0 Summit) will face off for the second-consecutive season. Akron defeated ORU 84-80 at Rhodes Arena on Jan. 3, 2011. UA owns a 4-0 record in the series, including a 2-0 road record.
This will be the ninth year for the Zips as a BracketBusters participant (3-5). Akron defeated Creighton 76-67 at Rhodes Arena last season (Feb. 19). UA will appear on TV for the fifth time in the event.
The 10th annual Sears BracketBusters, a three-day men's college basketball event pitting potential NCAA Championship hopefuls against each other Feb. 17-19, will feature 13 nationally televised games, on either ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ESPN3. The NCAA hopefuls will be selected from a pool of 142 teams from 16 conferences, the largest pool in the event's history.
The field features teams from 16 conferences: 12 each from Colonial Athletic Association, Mid-American Conference and Southland; 11 each from Ohio Valley Conference and Big South; 10 each from Horizon League, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Missouri Valley and Summit League; nine each from America East, Big Sky and Big West; eight from the Western Athletic Association; four from the Southern Conference; three from the MEAC; and two from the West Coast Conference.
Akron returns to Rhodes Arena for four of its next five games beginning with a TV matchup with Toledo on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m. ET. The game will air live on SportsTime Ohio.
For more information on the event, please visit http://espnbracketbusters.com/site/.
2012 Sears BracketBusters Matchups – Mid-American Conference
Saturday, February 18th
*Buffalo at South Dakota State (ESPNU, 1 p.m.)
*Akron at Oral Roberts (ESPN/ESPN2, 2 p.m.)
*UNC-Asheville at Ohio (ESPN3, 7 p.m.)
College of Charleston at Kent State
Western Michigan at North Dakota State
Eastern Michigan at Green Bay
Southern Illinois at Ball State
Morehead State at Bowling Green
Toledo at Sam Houston State
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Central Michigan
Northern Illinois at SIU Edwardsville
Sunday, February 19th
Tennessee State at Miami
*BracketBusters Television Game
