VBALL: NCAA Championship Schedule
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They make the "W" hand signal in the team picture after EVERY victory. It is no way a shot at Wisconsin.
I thought the same thing. Best case scenario we start around 9:30. Worst case scenario, we don't start until 10:30 and don't end until past 1:00.
It is the NCAA. Why would anyone expect them to get something right?
Just a guess, and I know San Diego isn't just some slouch team, but I'm betting they assume Pitt and Louisville will be a better game. But I also know there is a weird fixation with Texas up at ESPN headquarters so it's tough to say.
Yeah, I think they want Texas in prime time because they think it will get better ratings in that time slot. But they're going to lose east coast viewers for the second game, so you'd think they'd at least want west coast folks to have their team to watch. Oh well, it is what it is.
And that weird fixation is that they have a huge fan base that likes to watch their teams play, which means that when they are on television they tend to get really good ratings.
I suppose they are the largest school in the final four but if they have that many diehards that are going to watch the game, it makes less sense for that game to start at 6:00 local time. I'm trying to figure out if there is something else that would draw viewers away in that market but the only thing I can think of is the NBA.
6:00 local time is better than 8:30 or 9:00 or 9:30 local time. Remember that prime time in the Central time zone isn't 8-11 like it is in the east, it's 7-10.
The proof that they have that many diehards is that there is one, and only one, school that has it's own channel with one of the big broadcasters (BYU also has one, but they do that all on their own). And it's Texas. ESPN thought enough of their crappy, third tier television rights that they actually pay them the kind of money that West Virginia fans dream that they make from those rights.
They only get one live football game a year on the channel. Sure, it is by far the most valuable thing that they show, but they spend a lot of time showing a lot of other things the other 364 days of the year.
Here's a nice article on Buzzerio.
volleyballmag.com
Buzzerio packs career of volleyball memories into one stellar season at Pitt | Volleyballmag.com
The ending perhaps was fitting for Courtney Buzzerio. In Pitt’s biggest moment of the season — the fifth set of a regional final against defending national champion Wisconsin on the Badgers’ home floor — it was Buzzerio who delivered the knockout blow. Four years of frustration obliterated in a...
volleyballmag.com
For some reason, they had the regions scheduled into the semis before the winners were even known. We were already in line for the 9:30PM start even before we beat Florida.
