Pacific will represent the Big West in one of 11 televised BracketBusters games, hosting New Mexico State of the Western Athletic Conference on Saturday, February 20.  The game will tip at 7:00 p.m. (PST) on ESPNU.

It will be the second time that the Tigers and Aggies have met in BracketBusters.  The two schools played each other the first time in a non-televised matchup, with New Mexico State winning 79-69 in overtime on February 18, 2006 at the Spanos Center.

Pacific is appearing in a televised BracketBusters game for the second time in the event's existence.  Before a sellout crowd of 6,150 at the Spanos Center, the Tigers defeated UTEP in front of a nationally televised audience on ESPN on February 19, 2005.

The complete list of BracketBusters televised games is as follows:

All Times Eastern

Friday, February 19
Old Dominion at Northern Iowa • 7:00 p.m. • ESPN2 HD/ESPN360.com
William & Mary at Iona • 9:00 p.m. • ESPNU

Saturday, February 20
Siena at Butler • 11:00 a.m. • ESPN2 HD/ESPN360.com
Morgan State at Murray State • 12:00 p.m. • ESPNU
Louisiana Tech at Northeastern • 1:00 p.m. • ESPN2 HD/ESPN360.com
Nevada at Missouri State • 3:00 p.m. • ESPN2 HD/ESPN360.com
Akron at Virginia Commonwealth • 4:00 p.m. • ESPNU
College of Charleston at George Mason • 8:00 p.m. • ESPN2 HD/ESPN360.com
Western Carolina at Kent State • 8:00 p.m. • ESPNU
New Mexico State at Pacific • 10:00 p.m. • ESPNU
Wichita State at Utah State • 11:59 p.m. • ESPN2 HD/ESPN360.com

The other eight Big West teams not selected to compete in a televised BracketBusters game will play non-conference opponents on Saturday, Feb. 20.

The non-televised games involving Big West home teams:

SIU Edwardsville at Cal State Fullerton
Drake at Cal State Northridge
Marist at UC Irvine
Youngstown State at UC Riverside

The non-televised games involving Big West road teams:

Cal Poly at Hawaii
Long Beach State at Idaho
UC Davis at Boise State
UC Santa Barbara at Fresno State

The eighth annual BracketBusters event, a two-day men's college basketball extravaganza pitting potential NCAA Tournament hopefuls against each other Feb. 19-20, will feature 11 nationally televised games - on either ESPN2 or ESPNU - selected from a pool of 98 teams.

For the fifth straight year, ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports network, will televise five BracketBusters games while ESPN2 will televise six contests.  The 11 BracketBusters matchups will be announced today on ESPNU at 3:30 p.m. (PST).

BracketBusters, named because of the success of the teams in NCAA Tournament play over the years, will provide the televised teams an opportunity to play other top non-conference opponents three weeks before Selection Sunday.  Teams participating this season in BracketBusters have produced 89 appearances in the last six NCAA Tournaments.