That would be nice I can see him and Trimble being a tough backcourt

It appears that Black did not win the award this year. Virginia’s Reece Beekman is the ACC Defensive Player of the year.

CBS Sports and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Announce 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Commentator Teams

Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill and Tracy Wolfson to Call Division I Men’s Championship and Semifinals for Eighth Straight Tournament.

Jay Wright and Stan Van Gundy Join NCAA Tournament Coverage as Analysts

Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and CBS Sports’ combined coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship will feature an experienced and deep lineup of announcers. All 67 games from the 2023 NCAA Men’s Tournament will be televised across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – and via NCAA March Madness Live, beginning Tuesday, March 14 with the NCAA First Four on truTV.

Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill and reporter Tracy Wolfson will call this year’s NCAA Men’s Final Four National Semifinals on Saturday, April 1 and National Championship on Monday, April 3 from Houston, airing on CBS. This is the eighth straight Tournament they have called the Final Four together.

This will mark Nantz’s 32nd and last Final Four as lead play-by-player announcer, a position he has held since 1991. This year will also mark Nantz’s 37th overall NCAA Tournament, having served as studio host from 1986-90.

New and expanded commentator roles for this year’s coverage will include:

• Jay Wright joining as a studio analyst throughout the Tournament, including the Final Four;
• Stan Van Gundy joining as a game analyst through the Regional Finals;
• Evan Washburn and Lauren Shehadi serving as game reporters through the Regional Finals.

Greg Gumbel will host studio coverage from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, joined by Charles Barkley, Clark Kellogg and Kenny Smith as well as Wally Szczerbiak. Ernie Johnson will host studio coverage from WBD Studios in Atlanta alongside Jay Wright, Candace Parker and Seth Davis. Additionally, Adam Zucker and Adam Lefkoe will also serve as hosts from New York and Atlanta, respectively.

Gene Steratore will serve as rules analyst throughout the Tournament and will be on-site in Houston for the Final Four.

Zucker will provide game updates from New York, while Nabil Karim will provide updates from Atlanta.

Following is the complete list of announcer pairings:



The tournament will tip off Tuesday, March 14 and Wednesday, March 15 with the NCAA First Four on truTV. Tom McCarthy, Avery Johnson and reporter Jon Rothstein will call First Four action from Dayton, Ohio. Studio coverage for the First Four will originate from Atlanta with Lefkoe and analysts Wright, Parker and Davis.

Accompanying the live television presentation, NCAA March Madness Live will once again be the ultimate digital destination for direct access to all 67 games of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.

Follow us on Twitter (@MM_MBB_TV) and NCAA.com for schedule updates and the latest NCAA Tournament broadcast news and information.

NCAA, March Madness, Elite 8, Sweet 16, First Four, Final Four and Road to the Final Four are trademarks owned or licensed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Discussion
UNC welcomed Duke in for Senior Day, and gave one of its most impotent performances in the 3-point era. UNC scored 0.71 pts/poss, a performance only better than 50 of UNC's previous 989 games. Defensively UNC only kind of bad, allowing 0.89 pts/poss. Duke outrebounded UNC, getting 2 more possessions than the Heels.

A little more about that shooting: UNC took 41% of their shots from behind the 3-point arc ... while shooting a miserable 22% from there. RJ Davis was 3-5 while Nance, Black, Dunn, and Love combined for 2-23.

Caleb Love was 0-6. His last 0-fer outing was against Louisville on 1/14. Since then he's made 1 or 2 3-pointers in 7 of the 13 games.

To put a little more perspective on this: UNC's best 3-point shooter is RJ Davis, and he ranks #36 in the 15-team ACC. Leaky Black is #49, and Caleb Love is #55. Only 3 players in the league have taken more 3-pointers this season than Caleb Love, and they average .332, .367, .386 (average of 0.361). Love has shot .301. So, if Caleb Love's shooting accuracy were on par with players getting comparable shots, he would have made 82 3s this season; an additional 14 made. That's 42 more points distributed throught the season. In games where Love attempted more than 10 3s, he was 3-11, 4-13, 2-10, 4-11, and 2-12. There seems to be absolutely no recognition by him or the coaches when he is shooting worse than 70 players in this league. How many times has Love eclipsed that expected 36% from 3 in UNC's 31 games? Just 10.

With all of these woes, the coaching staff has continued to allow players like Black and Love to continue shooting 3s. In this game UNC shot 41% of their shots from behind the arc. Only 104 times in the last 989 have they opted for more 3s. This team is just 0.2% from being the worst 3-point shooting team in program history, yet is it taking 37% of its shots from there. The all-time proportion of 3s taken for the program is 29%. So Davis has opted for a game plan that his players, especially Caleb Love cannot execute, and by my observations, Davis hasn't realized the obscene number of possessions that are being wasted.

Inside the arc was a disaster, too. UNC had too many missed dunks and tap backs for me to count. They shot an atrocious 36% inside the arc, the 44th-worst performance in the last 989. One of the big problems with this team is the amazingly wimpy play down low. Players are jumping with their ankles and not their knees. Below-the-rim play by players who are 6'9" or taller is resuling in easily blocked shots and an awful percentage on putbacks. We blew at least 10 of our 73 possessions in this game due to this.

I watched a Charlotte NBA game toward the end of Larry Brown's coaching career, and as they went to a commercial, Brown was caught on a hot mic telling a big mad entering the huddle,"Just dunk the g*&%$@# thing!" Ever since Roy Williams arrived, it seems the culture of aggressive interior play, attacking the rim, has vanished. Tyler Hansbrough was certainly an exception, but outside of him? Forget Vince Carter, Jerry Stackhouse, Julius Peppers, or JR Reid. I'd bet there haven't been as many aggressive plays in the last 21 teams combined as Brendan Haywood amassed in his 4 years in Chapel Hill. (Haywood, a McDonald's All-American played 13 seasons in the NBA)

As a whole the team averaged 30% from the field. UNC has only had nine games in the last 989 where they shot worse.

We've talked about increasing defensive pressure, creating more fast break opportunities. That just hasn't happened. In this game there were only 148 possessions. Only 90 games have been slower. Our 28-year average on pace is 169 possessions. How many of our 31 games has more than 169 possessions? 5. Is it the woefully ill-prepared bench that is forcing Davis to play Davis/Love the entire second half?

Hubert Davis says he is taking this one game at a time. With this lack of defensive pressure, slow tempo, wimpy play down low, and horrendous green light to Caleb Love, that's about all he's going to get this season.

How many games is it gonna take to avoid the NIT?

I’m a casual premier league fan and I doubt anyone in here is and I don’t gaf so spare me your soccer insults but something happened that transcends all that and I think is fascinating and hilarious. Liverpool and manchester United are two perennial powerhouses and long time bitter rivals. English Soccer fan bases are a hundred times more rabid than anything you’ve seen in the nfl or the ncaa to the point that it became a national embarrassment but anyway…..Liverpool beat Man U 7-0. Now a blowout in soccer is 3-0. Lose 4-0 and it’s an absolute meltdown and riots in the streets but 7-0? Holy shit no exxageration it’s like the giants beating the cowboys 100-0. It’s like unc beating dook 150-30 in bball. The Red Sox beating the Yankees 30-0. We’re talking once in a lifetime rout. As a result the fan bases for the respective teams are well…..very excited. This fan reaction compilation from you tubers watching the game is worth the watch. I can identify with a lot of these at times in my fandom career.

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Looks like Paolo is still bitter and needs a reminder who ended his college career in the Final 4
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