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Navy @ Providence, 7:00
FS2: Rich Ackerman, Vin Parise

Bucknell @ 12 Villanova, 8:00
CBS Sports Network: Tom McCarthy, Alaa Abdelnaby

These should both be comfortable wins. Assuming no surprises, the Big East should run its combined record to 22-1.

Bucknell hanging around with Villanova. 55-51 on CBSSN.

MUPanther wrote:Navy @ Providence, 7:00
FS2: Rich Ackerman, Vin Parise

Bucknell @ 12 Villanova, 8:00
CBS Sports Network: Tom McCarthy, Alaa Abdelnaby

By the way, Rich Ackerman and Vin Parise were excellent announcing last night.
Ackerman has a great voice, and each guy knew about the teams and players.

I noticed that they were positive about each team. Ackerman, as the play by play guy, set the tone. Could listen to that guy every game. Navy was down big, but they never disparaged them. Stressed more that PC was clicking and referred to the Michigan State game a lot to praise Navy even though they struggled.

Taking this a bit further, this is in the Dick Enberg old school of announcing. Respect for each team. I haven't thought this completely through yet, but at some point announcing veered off (late 80's, early 90's...? not sure...) into annoying loudmouths, cynics, and critics, rather than just letting the guys play. I could point to a bunch of ESPN clowns that suck to criticize (McDonough, Bilas, etc, are cynical, smarmy assholes... Dan Shulman is great though), but I'll save that for another post.

billyjack wrote:

MUPanther wrote:Navy @ Providence, 7:00
FS2: Rich Ackerman, Vin Parise

Bucknell @ 12 Villanova, 8:00
CBS Sports Network: Tom McCarthy, Alaa Abdelnaby

By the way, Rich Ackerman and Vin Parise were excellent announcing last night.
Ackerman has a great voice, and each guy knew about the teams and players.

I noticed that they were positive about each team. Ackerman, as the play by play guy, set the tone. Could listen to that guy every game. Navy was down big, but they never disparaged them. Stressed more that PC was clicking and referred to the Michigan State game a lot to praise Navy even though they struggled.

Taking this a bit further, this is in the Dick Enberg old school of announcing. Respect for each team. I haven't thought this completely through yet, but at some point announcing veered off (late 80's, early 90's...? not sure...) into annoying loudmouths, cynics, and critics, rather than just letting the guys play. I could point to a bunch of ESPN clowns that suck to criticize (McDonough, Bilas, etc, are cynical, smarmy assholes... Dan Shulman is great though), but I'll save that for another post.

Hmmm....... Good point, billy.