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[QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 1202609, member: 906"]
I see where you are coming from but I see the opposite I see it as a momentum builder for our competition, and what they want the casual college basketball fan, and sportsbetters, who just turned into the game to root and cheer for. I defenetly see a bias the first minute they say "what do you have to do to BEAT SYRACUSE, and the other announcer talks". How many teams do they do that to at halftime? Probably only 2-3 and we are the prime example.

They have been doing that to us the last 3-4 years 95% of the time religously. The big story at halftime is how to beat syracuse zone not even what happened in the first half or reguardless of the score. We could be up by 50, or down 30 needing a boost, and they would be prepped for the how to beat the syracuse zone.

Maybe its just my perception but its the way I view it, I don't feel like they are ever excited about our players, but want to see opponents challenge us. Maybe some of it has to do with scoring and high scoring games are more liked then defense, especially for tv ratings.

This is where someone like bobby knight would be great, he would just break down individual plays at half time, basics and stats, instead of giving a bias example of what to hope for and saving the stats to garbage time right before the second half tip.
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