NCAA Tournament coverage has been under the microscope over the past few days for its plethora of questionable decisions.
Awful Announcing took aim at coverage from CBS and TNT Sports in a new column that pointed out the myriad of mistakes made from the beginning of the tournament through the Final Four, where outrage over the coverage reached a fever pitch with a minutes-long Capital One bit and needless Chainsmokers concert.
“Saturday’s shameless and seemingly endless Capital One bit was one of the biggest misfires seen on sports television in a long time,” Demetri Ravanos of Awful Announcing wrote.
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“TBS crammed seven people on one desk in something that would make CNN’s Election Night in America coverage blush,” he added. “One of them was Will Forte playing Dr. James Naismith to host what else but another game show. This stretched on for seven interminable minutes of pain between Final Four games.”
The seven-person booth drew comparisons to the Last Supper, that’s how many analysts were packed in.
As for the Chainsmokers concert, Ravanos wrote about the apathetic reaction from those in the crowd and at home, who were just wondering when the second game between Michigan and Arizona was going to start.
“No one needs a halftime show. TNT made me genuinely feel bad for the Chainsmokers on Saturday night by putting the group in a no win situation in between the national semifinal games,” he wrote. “The crowd in the arena couldn’t have cared less and the people watching at home just wanted the second game to start at a reasonable time.”
CBS and TNT Sports have a chance to redeem themselves with the national title game between Michigan and UConn at 8:50 p.m. ET on TBS, truTV and HBO Max.
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