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2014 NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
April 5, 2014  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

Various Networks, 6:00 p.m. ET

 

The Final Four arrives on TV tonight, but this year it arrives with a unique twist. You can watch the same action on three different networks – but hear it reported by three different announcing teams. TBS carries both games, beginning at 6 p.m. ET, with the standard TV reporting team – but you can also watch on TNT and TruTV, where those networks will show the same visual feed, but turn over the audio to the respective home-team announcers. (That was the way my dad used to watch Miami Dolphins football games back in Ft. Lauderdale: watching the TV image, but with the sound down, listening to the local radio announcers instead. It took more than 40 years, but technology finally has caught up.) The first game, wherever you watch it, has top-seeded South team Florida facing No. 11 seed Dayton – the last team to beat Florida before its current undefeated streak, and the only thing standing between Florida making it past the Final Four after three unsuccessful attempts. After that game concludes, the same three networks eventually will televise Game 2, which features West’s top seeds: No. 1 Arizona vs. No. 2 Wisconsin, the only Elite Eight game in which the top two seeds made it to the regional finals.

 
 
 
 
 
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Ed Q
Too much cut & paste
Apr 5, 2014   |  Reply
 
Scott
...nor Dayton.. David! The other info is nice though. It's a neat experiment and will be this way the next couple years.
Apr 5, 2014
 
 
John
Yes, imagine my disappointment that Arizona isn't really in the Final Four.
Apr 5, 2014
 
 
 
 
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