CBS Sports, Turner Sports announce championship commentator team for 2015 Men's Basketball tourney

[OrangeXtreme]

Turner Sports and CBS Sports will feature a collection of marquee commentators for its fifth consecutive year of combined coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. CBS Sports and Turner Sports once again will provide live, full national coverage of all 67 tournament games across four networks -- TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV -- as well as NCAA March Madness Live, beginning Tuesday, March 17, with the NCAA First Four on truTV presented by Northwestern Mutual.

This year’s NCAA Final Four National Semifinals from Indianapolis will be televised Saturday, April 4, on TBS with team-specific “TeamCast” coverage available via TNT and truTV. The national championship will air Monday, April 6, on CBS...

http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball...rner-sports-announce-championship-commentator

 

[OrangeXtreme]

ANNOUNCER PAIRINGS
Play-by-Play... Analyst...... Reporter
Jim Nantz... Bill Raftery/Grant Hill....Tracy Wolfson *
Marv Albert..... Chris Webber/Len Elmore......Craig Sager *
Verne Lundquist... Jim Spanarkel... Allie LaForce *
Kevin Harlan...... Reggie Miller/Dan Bonner...... Rachel Nichols *
Ian Eagle...... Doug Gottlieb... Evan Washburn
Brian Anderson... Steve Smith......Lewis Johnson
Spero Dedes...... Mike Gminski... Jaime Maggio
Andrew Catalon...Steve Lappas.... Jamie Erdahl

 

[Frozen]

That's three SU guys if I am not mistaken.

 

[Knicks411]

Oh man I just realized that Raftery having the FF (awesome) means he isn't working with Verne (not awesome)

 

[Shermthegeneral]

Oh man I just realized that Raftery having the FF (awesome) means he isn't working with Verne (not awesome)

I love Raf! He is like comfort food!

 

[jncuse]

As long as its not Harlan... his biased commentating and blatant disregard of the rulebook in the 1-16 UNC Asheville game made it look like they got screwed. What a joke.

I will never respect Harlan again.

 

[Toga]

Catalon brushing up on his ethnic humor.

 

[STEVEHOLT]

I liked Spanarkel until his call on The Johnny Flynn facial on that Rosario. Instead of discussing the insaneness of the dunk, he was just hawing about it being a charge.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Catalon brushing up on his ethnic humor.

Hey now. We like Catalon and besides, his wife is a little hottie.

 

[kirbivore]

Let's predict which cities these broadcasters will end up in 2 weeks.

Nantz/Raf/Hill - Charlotte
Marv/CWebb/Elmore - Louisville
Lundquist/Spanarkel - Pittsburgh
Harlan/Reggie Miller/Dan Bonner - Omaha
Eagle/Gottlieb - Portland
Anderson/Smith - Jacksonville
Dedes/Gminski - Columbus
Catalon/Lappas - Seattle

CBS/Turner aren't as invested in UK as ESPN is, so UK will get the #2 broadcast team. The #1 team will be in Charlotte with likely two #1 seeds and at worst a 1 and a 2. Gottlieb knows a good deal about west coast teams so I figured he'd get one of the pacific coast pod sites.