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Welcome to Busting Brackets, the NCAA basketball news and opinions site brought to you by the FanSided Network. Busting Brackets is dedicated to providing top-notch NCAA basketball news, views, and original content. This site also serves as a community for like-minded fans to come together to catch up on the latest news and to discuss their passion.
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Antonio Barbetta
Antonio is an Independent Contributor at FanSided covering both college basketball on the Busting Brackets site, and the San Diego Padres on the Friars on Base site. He is currently a student at Indiana University-Bloomington where he is majoring in Sports Media. In March 2026, Antonio was ranked as the most accurate Bracketologist leading up to March Madness, outperforming ESPN, CBS Sports and FOX Sports. Previously in September 2025, Antonio received a "Fundamentals of Journalism" certificate from NBCUniversal. Antonio has watched every Oregon Ducks football and basketball game since 2014. In his free time, he likes to hang out with his friends and dog.
Frank Sciarroni
Frank Sciarroni is a contributor for FanSided’s Saturday Blitz and Busting Brackets, covering his passions of college football and basketball. Frank began covering these sports in 2022 but has been a fan and watcher since the day he was born. He enjoys covering the game in a fun way, entertaining while also informing his readers, and has a knack for sports betting. He recently graduated from the University of Pittsburgh where he majored in Communications, minored in Italian Studies, and received a certificate in Sports Studies. On the rare occasion that he is not watching sports, Frank enjoys fishing and reading poetry.
Joey Loose
A Chicago native and Valpo alum, I'm obsessed with all things sports, especially college basketball, with a focus on sports statistics, data, and cartography.
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Rodney Knuppel
Rodney Knuppel is the Site Expert at Busting Brackets, covering all things college basketball. He has written at Athlon Sports, Sporting News and been a sports radio host at ESPN radio (Peoria, IL). He hosts a Sunday morning Fantasy Football show on 101.1 Sports Radio from 9-11am CT. In his free time he coaches his daughters softball team, and gets his three kids to all their sports and activities.
Tristan Freeman
Writer at Busting Brackets here at FanSided since September of 2017. Promoted to co-expert of the site in February of 2018. Passionate basketball fan of both the pros and college and strives to get better as a writer through effort and hard work.
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