Stanford fan Broken Cowboy also sees problems with the CBS coverage of the NCAA tournament:
CBS doesn’t seem to like to show early round games in their entirety; instead they feel like they have to jump around. So while I was trying to watch Stanford and Mississippi State, Gumbel interrupted the action towards the end of the first half and told me I’d have to watch Kansas and Bucknell. No problem, though. Stanford was up 39-27, and things were looking good.
But as Kansas and Bucknell were running back and forth across my screen, the ticker in the corner told me that Mississippi State was coming back and coming back quickly. When CBS decided to send us back to our original game, it was tied at 41. Damn you, CBS. Then when the Bulldogs started to pull away in the second half, opening up a ten-point lead, Gumbel again switched us back to the Kansas game. From there the lead exploded, and the Cardinal ended up on the business end of a mysterious blowout. Why mysterious? Because they played pretty well — actually better than Mississippi State — when I was watching. Take a look:
Televised:
24:43 — Stanford 51, Miss. State 49
Not Televised:
15:17 — Miss. State 44, Stanford 19There could be other factors involved, but I choose to blame CBS.
I was very irritated when KRQE was pulling away from the Lobos vs. Villanova game, especailly when it seemed that the Lobos might have had a chance at that point.
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