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Message: [QUOTE="2Husky, post: 2654776, member: 6001"] i finished watching the replay. third quarter continued like the first half, not too much talking, long periods of dead air, and calling the game action as it happens. This was the time when Duke cut into the lead, and uconn built it back up. They could have tried to put a little more tension into Duke cutting the lead to 13, but they were still calling the game at this point. After the media time out they started highlighting Brown setting the duke steal record, and then had a general talk about defense for a few minutes. During this defensive talk, there was some game action which went uncalled, though UConn built their lead back up and no one scored for the final 2 minutes of the quarter. The fourth also wasn't too bad, generally calling game action until after the media time out. the score wasn't closer than 16 until it was clear the game was over. The fashion talk was for a duke senior talking about her major and career goals, the kind of thing the NCAA loves to highlight. The ESPN crew did ham it up a little too much, and should have kept the focus on the player, but with less than 5 minutes in a ~20point game, with duke not pressing or running it was pretty clear what the outcome was at that point. With less than 2 minutes left and a 17 point game the announcers started looking ahead to UConn's next game. So for the majority of the game the announcers talked about the basketball game they were watching, and most of the rest was talking about basketball principles or the players off the court. i think the hyperbole in the criticism of the broadcast is representative of the hyperbole in the criticism of UConn on the bone-yard after a 15 point win. I agree some of the UConn broadcast earlier in the year were bad, but this was fine. There is room for improvement but i'd probably give it a C- [/QUOTE]

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