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Message: [QUOTE="Jimbo, post: 3888502, member: 6751"] With about 5 minutes to go in the UConn-DePaul men's Big East Tournament game tonight, and UConn up by about 30, Gus Johnson and Bill Raftery spent a solid 1:30 of airtime (spanning several possessions in the game) talking exclusively about, wait for it… UConn women's basketball. Among the topics covered: [LIST] [*]"Maybe the best crowd" Gus Johnson has ever been around in all his years of calling games was UConn vs. Tennessee in Hartford back in the day. [*]Paige Bueckers is really good. [*]Paige Bueckers is only a freshman! [*]Hmm, maybe Paige Bueckers could help the Knicks right about now? Somebody should give the Knicks a call about this. [*]Gus Johnson once called a game with Rebecca Lobo at the RAC. [*]Bill Raftery was on hand for Rebecca Lobo's Hall of Fame induction speech, and that was a very good speech. [*]But that's not exactly surprising, because Rebecca Lobo is a very talented person. [/LIST] During this entire time, neither of them said a single thing about the UConn-DePaul game they were calling. Since the more typical complaint around here involves women's basketball broadcasters/studio denizens digressing about men's basketball for no apparent reason, I thought it might make some people happy to know that, for this one time at least, it went the other way. ;) [/QUOTE]