College Basketball on ESPN
Well the past two nights were the most exciting college basketball of the year, the first four games of the NCAA tournament in the most important city in Ohio, Dayton. Good try Liberty. Now, we are in store for two days of basketball... I'm anxious to see scattered periods of "Damn, there goes my perfect bracket!" throughout the two days. I'm sure everyone I know will at least think that in their mind. Turns out, I already had my bracket ruined by Pittsburgh; my tradition of making incorrect predictions continues just as I intended!
For the past couple years, the coverage of the NCAA tournament has been excellent in terms of showing all the games. This is mainly because that CBS has decided to stream all the games online. For 10.8 billion dollars, CBS/Turner is definitely making the most out of it. But as a college basketball fan, I'm not a big fan of the commentary and analysts. After more than 5 months of the regular season coverage mostly coming from ESPN, it's hard to watch NBA "experts" discuss college basketball. I would love to see Jay Bilas, Andy Katz, Bob Knight, Jalen Rose, Digger Phelps, and even Dick Vitale cover the tournament just like they have during the regular season. I do love Bill Raftery though; I have doubts about the knowledge of the college game from Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and some others from the CBS crew. It makes me wonder if NBA fans even like that crew...
College basketball just doesn't fell right on CBS; it's like brushing your teeth with your other hand...
I'm starting to loathe money: First the conference realignments and now terrible college basketball coverage...