Weekend Watchdog: The ball is tipped….
Monday night, after the game is won and the nets are cut down, CBS rolls the montage.
It’s probably half done now, awaiting a few highlights from the Final Four in New Orleans to honor the new college basketball champions.
Before it’s ready, we’ve got to get to a championship game pairing. We know one Kentucky school will be there, since the top-seeded Wildcats face former coach Rick Pitino and the Louisville Cardinals Saturday at 6 p.m. Read more
Weekend Watchdog: 16 … 8 … 4 …
Most fans expect two teams from North Carolina to be in the NCAA Sweet 16.
Usually it’s North Carolina and Duke. Not this year.
North Carolina and their buddies at North Carolina State continue their drive for New Orleans this weekend on CBS and TBS.
The action resumes at 7 p.m. on CBS when Syracuse takes on Wisconsin in Boston. TBS offers Louisville-Michigan State at 7:45 p.m., and it’s back to Boston at 9:45 p.m. for Cincinnati meeting Ohio State. TBS has the nightcap as Florida faces Marquette. Read more
Weekend Watchdog: 68 … 64 … 32 …16
How’s your productivity at work?
Enough studying the brackets, it’s time for the games.
After the First Four Tuesday and Wednesday night, the main event tips at noon Thursday on CBS. One-loss Murray State gets the opening slot, playing Colorado State before Marquette takes on BYU. In primetime on CBS, VCU faces Wichita State. Read more
Weekend Watchdog: And the field is …
Enough of the last four in and the first four out.
Time to pick the First Four on the Road to the Final Four.
The 68-team NCAA men’s basketball tournament field will be announced Sunday at 6 p.m. on CBS, and talked about constantly on ESPN through the week.
Before the four channels get their schedule for the next few weeks, the top conference have their tournaments. Read more
Weekend Watchdog: Tournament championship time
Who’s going to be playing in the NCAA tournament?
The first tickets get punched this weekend.
The Big South goes first, Saturday at noon on ESPN2. Then the Ohio Valley crowns its champion at 2 p.m. The Atlantic Sun title game is at 7 p.m., followed by the semifinals of the West Coast Conference tournament. Read more
Weekend Watchdog: Boogity, boogity, boogity
Darrell Waltrip’s there.
Danica Patrick’s going to be there.
It’s Boogity, boogity, boogity time.
The flag drops on the Daytona 500 on FOX Sunday at 1 p.m. Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle will lead the field to the start/finish line as Waltrip starts another year in the announcer’s booth. Read more
Weekend Watchdog: Bracket Buster Time
George Mason and VCU have busted brackets in past years. Murray State hopes to do it in 2012.
It’s the weekend of the annual BracketBusters, where teams from mid-major conferences battle against each other to get ready for March Madness.
VCU hosts Northern Iowa Friday at 7 p.m. on ESPN2, then Saturday play opens at noon with Wichita at Davidson on ESPN2. Akron visits Oral Roberts at 2 p.m. and it’s Nevada-Iona at 4 p.m. The night concludes at 10 p.m. when Long Beach State goes to Creighton.
St. Mary’s plays one-loss Murray State on ESPN at 6 p.m. Read more
