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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 5218068, member: 1131"] I watched last night's game in person, then I read this thread, and finally (this afternoon) I watched the replay on TV. I was prepared for a much more negative experience with the announcers than I actually observed when I watched the replay. The only thing I would say is that they were a bit too pro-UConn and pro-Big East. They certainly weren't anti-Creighton. It occurs to me that Fox has the contract to cover the Big East and the Big Ten, while ESPN has the SEC and the ACC (and also the Big 12?). So I would not be surprised if the announcers were instructed by their bosses to advertise Fox's "own" conferences and the quality of play in them. But, as I've said before, you can't realistically expect TV announcers to be focused on the game details when the game is not really competitive, which last night's game was not after the first quarter. I didn't notice much irrelevant talk during the first quarter, but certainly there was more of it as the game progressed. When it's an 18-25 point game in the third and fourth quarters, any "normal" fan will lose interest in the details of who substituted for whom or who committed the last foul. Boneyarders, including me, will always be interested in those details, but we're not normal fans. There were some extraneous discussion topics that I actually was interested to hear about, such as the graphic showing that the only two teams that are in the top 10 nationally in both offense and defense are UCLA and UConn. I know it's easier for UConn to generate gaudy statistics when it plays in a non-competitive conference, but still this seems like a significant factoid. [/QUOTE]

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