ESPN Bracket Busters here we come to Northern Illinois U

NIU is where?  Lets see, you fly into Chicago then you drive somewhere (Dekab Ill.  What the?) for an hour plus, maybe more due to snow and then you find the Northern Illinois University Huskies in Podunk ville. Then you run into the guy to the left, a ridiculous looking midget mascot.  Rudy, you rule over that guy...and frankly you don't rule over many.

Now NIU plays in the Mid American Conference who has 12 teams and two divisions with teams like Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Ohio (no, not the really good one) and a host of other Podunk (that's my favorite new word) schools.  The Huskies are 7-17 in play and 3-9 in the conference but let us not look past the farm boys, they breed them big in the mid west and NIU has played formidable teams as in Temple, Missouri and a common opponent in Utah Valley (which we beat in Key Arena) NIU has lost seven of their last eight games with a great losing streak of six.  SU needs to meet more teams with stats like that.

What is the ESPN Bracket Buster?  In lay man's terms it is a hyped up marketing piece to have more games on the TV - god love'em I need more games on the TV.  Here is an interesting bit.  SU is the only school traveling outside their region to play in the ESPN BB. And if you go on the website all the conferences are listed then there is the magical SU marquee.  That's because we are Independent and we don't have a home yet because we are the new kid on the block and all the bully's and yes referees and yes conference commissioners like to abuse us. Suck it!  We will prevail and we will travel umpteen miles and play whomever, whenever. wherever and we will show the Nation that College Basketball is back in Seattle!  Eat that Gonzaga!

OK, not my best writing, but I am saving it up for Tuesday's game against, yes, the University of Washington.

SU vs. NIU 1 pm PST on KIRO AM 710 ESPN in the ESPN Bracket Buster Series.  Go Seattle U!