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Gus Johnson and Bill Raftery return for their fourth season as FOX Sports’ lead college basketball game announcers, while Shannon Spake serves as lead sideline reporter. Broadcast veteran and former player Len Elmore is a new addition to the network’s game coverage, bringing more than two decades of college and professional basketball television experience to FOX Sports, most recently with ESPN and CBS, where has called games during the NCAA Championship.
…FOX Sports welcomes back several familiar and iconic voices to call game action this season. Led by Johnson and Raftery as well as Elmore, game broadcasters Joe Davis, Tim Brando, Justin Kutcher, Brian Custer and Brian Anderson return to the play-by-play seat this season, while Jackson, Marshall, Stephen Bardo, Nick Bahe, Dickey Simpkins and Tarik Turner handle game analysis for the BIG EAST, and Burkhardt, Jacobsen, Lavin and Aaron Goldsmith return to lead FOX Sports’ Pac-12 game coverage.
Interestingly, it sounds like Elmore will be continuing to work for ESPN as well, as he was part of their college basketball lineup released last week:
American games welcome Adam Amin, with Len Elmore (Thursday) and Allen Bestwick and Tim Welsh (Saturday).
Elmore was a three-time All-ACC selection as a player at Maryland, then was drafted in the first round by both the NBA and ABA and went on to a 10-year professional career. He has been broadcasting since 1986 and has done great work for both ESPN and CBS, so this is a nice addition for Fox, and it sounds like they’re going to feature him pretty prominently. That should be a boost to their college basketball coverage.
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