Television has finally figured out how to broadcast the NCAA tournament.
CBS and Turner Sports will announce Thursday that there will basically be basketball from noon to midnight at the start of the tourney, abandoning the lull in the early evening in the opening rounds.
Instead of bunching the games together throughout the day, the four networks -- CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV -- will stagger the games so that each can be seen in its entirety. The now-defunct system only allowed a slight stagger so that only the endings of each game were viewable.
So go the days of the cut-away and live look-ins, which only added to the anxiety of watching your favorite team in the tourney. Greg Gumbel's voice became a de facto angel of death, signaling that the team trailing at the time had pretty much no chance anymore.
But no more, it would seem, as cable television has entered the fray, effectively taking the guesswork out of which regional games will be broadcast in you area.
The 68 team field opens play on truTV March 15 with what's being dubbed as the "first four." The remainder of the action will commence two days later.
NCAA Tournament Expected to Show All Games in Entirety
Feb 10, 2011 – 10:30 AM
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