We’re back again for the second straight year, asking you to rate the NCAA Tournament announcers.
The rules are simple – we’re going to list all eight crews assigned to NCAA Tournament games over the first weekend (not including the tweaked trio that called the Wednesday First Four games), and you’re going to give them a grade from A to F. Once the voting concludes, we’ll tabulate each crew’s grade on the four point scale (with an A good for 4, a B 3, and so on and so forth down to a 0 for an F) to determine which tournament broadcast crews you love, and which you simply can’t stand. You’re voting based on the crew as a whole, so if you love the analyst and hate the play-by-play announcer, you should take that into account.
Because I’m a benevolent poll master, I’m listing all of the games called by each crew this tournament and linking to the NCAA’s extended highlights packages on YouTube for each game.
The polls will be open through 11 PM ET/8 PM PT on Wednesday, March 27th. The results will be posted on Thursday, prior to the start of the Sweet 16 games. Here are last year’s rankings, in case you missed them.
Happy voting!
Brian Anderson, Chris Webber, Allie LaForce
Iowa-Cincinnati
Colgate-Tennessee
Washington-Utah State
Iona-North Carolina
Iowa-Tennessee
Washington-North Carolina
Carter Blackburn, Debbie Antonelli, John Schriffen
Vermont-Florida State
Murray State-Marquette
St. Mary’s-Villanova
Old Dominion-Purdue
Murray State-Florida State
Villanova-Purdue
Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas, Lisa Byington
New Mexico State-Auburn
Northeastern-Kansas
Fairleigh Dickinson-Gonzaga
Baylor-Syracuse
Gonzaga-Baylor
Auburn-Kansas
Spero Dedes, Len Elmore, Steve Smith, Ros Gold-Onwude
UC Irvine-Kansas State
Oregon-Wisconsin
Liberty-Mississippi State
Saint Louis-Virginia Tech
Liberty-Virginia Tech
UC Irvine-Oregon
Ian Eagle, Jim Spanarkel, Jamie Erdahl
Yale-LSU
Belmont-Maryland
Abilene Christian-Kentucky
Seton Hall-Wofford
Maryland-LSU
Wofford-Kentucky
Kevin Harlan, Dan Bonner, Reggie Miller, Dana Jacobson
Minnesota-Louisville
Bradley-Michigan State
Florida-Nevada
Montana-Michigan
Florida-Michigan
Minnesota-Michigan State
Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery, Tracy Wolfson
Oklahoma-Ole Miss
Gardner-Webb-Virginia
North Dakota State-Duke
UCF-VCU
UCF-Duke
Oklahoma-Virginia
Brad Nessler, Jim Jackson, Steve Lavin, Evan Washburn
Northern Kentucky-Texas Tech
Arizona State-Buffalo
Georgia State-Houston
Ohio State-Iowa State
Buffalo-Texas Tech
Ohio State-Houston
