Thursday, April 22, 2010

THE BASKETBALL QUADRUPLECAST: There's a bunch of interesting stuff in this press release about the NCAA's new TV contract for the Division I Basketball Tournament, but the two big things are:
  • Starting next year, rather than CBS's "flip from game to game" coverage, it seems all games will be shown in their entirety on four different networks--CBS, TBS, TNT, and TruTV (f/k/a/ CourtTV). Unclear on how exactly the games will be divided among the networks. Beginning in 2016, the Final Four will air in alternate years on CBS and TBS.
  • Next year's tourney will expand from 65 to 68 teams, I assume by adding a play-in game to the 3 other regions that no one will really care about.