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(Press Release)LOGAN, Utah -- Utah State will travel to Moraga, Calif., and play Saint Mary's in the seventh annual ESPNU BracketBusters on Saturday, Feb. 21. USU's contest against the Gaels will be one of 13 games televised on the ESPN family of networks.
The exact time and network (ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN360.com) carrying the game will not be announced until Monday, Feb. 9. All 13 televised games will be played between Friday, Feb. 20 and Saturday, Feb. 21.
"The fact that we get to stay out West and play Saint Mary's with the year they are having and the year we are having makes sense," said Utah State head coach Stew Morrill. "We have great respect for their program and they've been very good for a number of years."
Utah State is 3-0 all-time in BracketBuster games as it defeated Northwestern State (66-63) at home during the 2005-06 season, won at Oral Roberts (71-65) during the 2006-07 campaign, and defeated UC Santa Barbara (72-59) at home last year.
Saint Mary's is 18-3 on the season and in third-place in the West Coast Conference with a 5-2 league record. The Gaels, who are 8-0 at home this year, return four starters and eight letterwinners from last year's team that went 25-7 and finished in second-place in the WCC with a 12-2 league record.
Utah State and Saint Mary¹s will be meeting for the sixth time ever with the Aggies owning a 4-1 all-time advantage. The last time the two teams met was on Mar. 3, 1978 at Saint Mary¹s with USU notching a 96-80 win. Overall, USU has won three straight games in the series.
All 10 Western Athletic Conference teams will be involved in this year's event. Other televised games involving WAC schools include VCU at Nevada and Boise State at Portland State.
(Courtesy USU Athletic Department)
