9:10ish Thursday night, TBS, Verne & Raf

[zls44]

http://news.turner.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5998

 

[SHREADY]

Damn, was hoping for Gus Johnson. Nice late start means I won't be taking anymore two hour lunches though.

 

[Huskies320]

Damn, was hoping for Gus Johnson. Nice late start means I won't be taking anymore two hour lunches though.

Gus Johnson no longer works for CBS. They got rid of him I believe. Which is absolute insanity.

 

[rman726]

Damn, was hoping for Gus Johnson. Nice late start means I won't be taking anymore two hour lunches though.

You will have to narrate the game with the game on mute if you want Gus:
http://www.gusjohnsongetsbuckets.com/

 

[champs99and04]

Love the late start

 

[SHREADY]

Gus Johnson no longer works for CBS. They got rid of him I believe. Which is absolute insanity.

Yepp totally forgot about that. Missed him doing time nfl this year for CBS. The Stokely TD call a few years ago was one of the greatest things I've ever heard.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Good. Don't have to take off work, and I love Bill Raftery. I think he's at his best calling Maui and the BET with Sean and Jay, but working with Verne he's not bad either.

Over-under on references to "last call": 2.5.

 

[zls44]

Gus left to get higher-profile NFL games. Fox gave him that chance.

 

[aceboon]

I hate Verne but Raf will hopefully cancel him out. Verne was already bad enough when he didn't know what was going on out on the court, he was even worse last year when he was openly rooting for SDSU & AZ because he had been covering west coast games for CBS last year.

 

[BugsyCT]

They're really positioning themselves to set the table for a Kentucky-UConn Saturday prime time matchup for maximum viewage(assuming it happens - can't mess with the mojo). Think Hathaway & Co. were eyeballing this all weekend.

 

[art4life]

Raftery is beyond awesome.

Verne is out to lunch most of the time now. But he doesn't annoy me as much as some of the announcers we've had this season.

 

[Dougsts]

Another no volume game, can't stand to listen to Rafftery

 

[Chin Diesel]

Raftery is beyond awesome.

Verne is out to lunch most of the time now. But he doesn't annoy me as much as some of the announcers we've had this season.

Much rather have Verne who is out to lunch than the guys who never leave the lunch counter.

Great rule of thumb for workers. If you suck and still have a job, less is always better.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Damn, was hoping for Gus Johnson. Nice late start means I won't be taking anymore two hour lunches though.

Gus Johnson would virtually guarantee that the game comes down to a last second shot.

 

[FluxTZ]

Looks like they switched things up. Just received this in Cynopsis Sports and we now have Brian Anderson, Dan Bonner, and Jenn Hildreth.

With the March Madness tipping off today, CBS Sports and Turner Sports have locked in broadcast teams for the first two rounds of the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. In first four coverage, Jim Nantz, Clark Kellogg and Steve Kerr will call the action, with Tracy Wolfson courtside for the two First Four games on Tuesday on truTV from Dayton, while Ian Eagle and Jim Spanarkel, and courtside reporter Lewis Johnson will handle microphone duties for Wednesday's action. Second-round coverage begins Thursday and Friday at 11a.

Here's the broadcast lineup for the second round:

Thursday
Verne Lundquist, Bill Raftery, Lesley Visser CBS
Murray St/Colorado St.
Marquette/BYU or Iona
Wichita St./VCU
Indiana/New Mexico St.

Kevin Harlan, Len Elmore, Reggie Miller, Marty Snider truTV
Kansas St./Pitt
Syracuse/UNC Asheville
Baylor/South Dakota St.
UNLV/Colorado

Brian Anderson, Dan Bonner, Jenn Hildreth TBS
Louisville/Davidson
New Mexico/Long Beach St.
Kentucky/MS Valley St. or W. Kentucky
Iowa St./Connecticut

Spero Dedes, Bob Wenzel, Jamie Maggio TNT
Wisconsin/Montana
Vanderbilt/Harvard
Gonzaga/West Virginia
Ohio State/Loyola Maryland

Friday

Ian Eagle, Jim Spanarkel, Lewis Johnson CBS
Cincinnati/Texas
Florida State/St. Bonaventure
Duke/Lehigh
Notre Dame/Xavier

Tim Brando, Mike Gminski, Otis Livingston truTV
San Diego St./NC State
Georgetown/Belmont
St. Mary's (CA)/Purdue
Kansas/Detroit

Jim Nantz, Clark Kellogg, Tracy Wolfson TBS
Creighton/Alabama
North Carolina/Lamar/Vermont
Memphis/Saint Louis
Michigan State/LIU Brooklyn

Marv Albert, Steve Kerr, Craig Sager TNT
Florida/Virginia
Missouri/Norfolk St.
Michigan/Ohio
Temple/California/South Florida

 

[HuskyHawk]

Looks like they switched things up. Just received this in Cynopsis Sports and we now have Brian Anderson, Dan Bonner, and Jenn Hildreth.

Ugh. Bonner annoys me. He never knows anything about any of the BE teams. Raff lives and dies with the BE.

 

[Tenspro2002]

I'm surprised they're putting us and Kentucky with an announcing trio of nobodies. Usually big-name programs get big-name commentators.

 

[junglehusky]

Saturday is St. Paddys day, Raff will be in rare form (wherever he is).

 

[Jaker]

just glad its not Nantz

 

[tzznandrew]

Gus Johnson no longer works for CBS. They got rid of him I believe. Which is absolute insanity.

I forgot how pathetic Morrison looked at the end of the collapse. I felt bad for him, but your the leader, you gotta keep it together. That ending was absurd.

Sad we don't have Gus anymore for these.