March Madness will start early as you will be able to get a sneak peek at your teams NCAAT seeding on Feb 11.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ncaa.co...ent=safari

March Madness is heating up early this season. For the first time ever, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Selection Committee will offer teams and fans an in-season look at the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship bracket. NCAA Men’s Basketball Chair Mark Hollis will be in studio for the reveal of the nation’s top 16 seeds, identifying the top-four teams in each region as they stand on Feb. 11. CBS Sports and Turner Sports will present NCAA MARCH MADNESS BRACKET PREVIEW, airing Saturday, Feb. 11 at 12:30 PM, ET on CBS.

(01-24-2017 06:46 PM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  March Madness will start early as you will be able to get a sneak peek at your teams NCAAT seeding on Feb 11.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ncaa.co...ent=safari

March Madness is heating up early this season. For the first time ever, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Selection Committee will offer teams and fans an in-season look at the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship bracket. NCAA Men’s Basketball Chair Mark Hollis will be in studio for the reveal of the nation’s top 16 seeds, identifying the top-four teams in each region as they stand on Feb. 11. CBS Sports and Turner Sports will present NCAA MARCH MADNESS BRACKET PREVIEW, airing Saturday, Feb. 11 at 12:30 PM, ET on CBS.

Hope CBS paid them for this.

Apparently, the CFP Selection show was successful and the NCAAT wants to follow.

(01-24-2017 06:46 PM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  March Madness will start early as you will be able to get a sneak peek at your teams NCAAT seeding on Feb 11.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ncaa.co...ent=safari

March Madness is heating up early this season. For the first time ever, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Selection Committee will offer teams and fans an in-season look at the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship bracket. NCAA Men’s Basketball Chair Mark Hollis will be in studio for the reveal of the nation’s top 16 seeds, identifying the top-four teams in each region as they stand on Feb. 11. CBS Sports and Turner Sports will present NCAA MARCH MADNESS BRACKET PREVIEW, airing Saturday, Feb. 11 at 12:30 PM, ET on CBS.

There'd probably be more interest in seeing the bottom 16 at-larges than the top 16 overall, though I can understand not wanting to give that away.

(01-24-2017 08:00 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(01-24-2017 06:46 PM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  March Madness will start early as you will be able to get a sneak peek at your teams NCAAT seeding on Feb 11.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ncaa.co...ent=safari

March Madness is heating up early this season. For the first time ever, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Selection Committee will offer teams and fans an in-season look at the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship bracket. NCAA Men’s Basketball Chair Mark Hollis will be in studio for the reveal of the nation’s top 16 seeds, identifying the top-four teams in each region as they stand on Feb. 11. CBS Sports and Turner Sports will present NCAA MARCH MADNESS BRACKET PREVIEW, airing Saturday, Feb. 11 at 12:30 PM, ET on CBS.

There'd probably be more interest in seeing the bottom 16 at-larges than the top 16 overall, though I can understand not wanting to give that away.

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In other words, you could call it there projection of who is a lock - unless something drastic happens.

Would be interesting if they were doing it this Saturday -- might look a bit shaken up given that the AP #1, #2, and #4 teams all lost tonight.

But I see why CBS is doing this on February 11. They want to do it after the Super Bowl because that's when a lot of casual sports fans look at the college basketball season for the first time.

I am so tired of this. It's bad enough CBS mucked up how the tournament games are played with the constant stoppages. Now, we have to manufacture this drama about who's who in the power structure?

Can you just let these guys play the **** game?

(01-25-2017 12:02 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  I am so tired of this. It's bad enough CBS mucked up how the tournament games are played with the constant stoppages. Now, we have to manufacture this drama about who's who in the power structure?

Can you just let these guys play the **** game?

um, you do know that the games in the tourney have the exact same number of stoppages that any game has. Both teams get the same number of timeouts as in the regular season.

Wouldn't it be simpler if CBS just asked the AP and USA Today to give them their weekly rankings before they are released to the public so they can be revealed live on Monday night?

(01-24-2017 08:00 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(01-24-2017 06:46 PM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  March Madness will start early as you will be able to get a sneak peek at your teams NCAAT seeding on Feb 11.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ncaa.co...ent=safari

March Madness is heating up early this season. For the first time ever, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Selection Committee will offer teams and fans an in-season look at the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship bracket. NCAA Men’s Basketball Chair Mark Hollis will be in studio for the reveal of the nation’s top 16 seeds, identifying the top-four teams in each region as they stand on Feb. 11. CBS Sports and Turner Sports will present NCAA MARCH MADNESS BRACKET PREVIEW, airing Saturday, Feb. 11 at 12:30 PM, ET on CBS.

There'd probably be more interest in seeing the bottom 16 at-larges than the top 16 overall, though I can understand not wanting to give that away.

How about the last eight in and the last eight out?

(01-26-2017 06:00 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(01-25-2017 12:02 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  I am so tired of this. It's bad enough CBS mucked up how the tournament games are played with the constant stoppages. Now, we have to manufacture this drama about who's who in the power structure?

Can you just let these guys play the **** game?

um, you do know that the games in the tourney have the exact same number of stoppages that any game has. Both teams get the same number of timeouts as in the regular season.

Team timeouts aren't where this came from. It's how the game takes its orders from the production trucks. It's every stoppage pretty much meaning a cutaway, and the running/rolling television clock that stops games at a set interval, too.

And it's more than just how the game flows on CBS versus other carriers. It's how CBS has a say in the selection process, how it gets to craft the field to bring marketability from it. How that also contradicts the integrity of the game.

And now you have CBS coming in and hanging it over a chunk of the field that this is where they "officially stand."

I'm just sick of CBS ****ing up this game. I'm sick of the NCAA being okay with CBS doing this stuff more. Anyone wants to know why players should be paid for being student athletes...it's not just cfb...CBS and the men's tournament is worse. Far worse.

(01-27-2017 10:38 AM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  

(01-26-2017 06:00 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(01-25-2017 12:02 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  I am so tired of this. It's bad enough CBS mucked up how the tournament games are played with the constant stoppages. Now, we have to manufacture this drama about who's who in the power structure?

Can you just let these guys play the **** game?

um, you do know that the games in the tourney have the exact same number of stoppages that any game has. Both teams get the same number of timeouts as in the regular season.

Team timeouts aren't where this came from. It's how the game takes its orders from the production trucks. It's every stoppage pretty much meaning a cutaway, and the running/rolling television clock that stops games at a set interval, too.

And it's more than just how the game flows on CBS versus other carriers. It's how CBS has a say in the selection process, how it gets to craft the field to bring marketability from it. How that also contradicts the integrity of the game.

And now you have CBS coming in and hanging it over a chunk of the field that this is where they "officially stand."

I'm just sick of CBS ****ing up this game. I'm sick of the NCAA being okay with CBS doing this stuff more. Anyone wants to know why players should be paid for being student athletes...it's not just cfb...CBS and the men's tournament is worse. Far worse.

ok lets take your 2 points about the games....

1- every stoppage with a cutaway. True. But like late game situations, it's 30 second commercial and they're back. It's the length of the timeout. CBS may do a commercial while other networks stick around to talk about the situation- but it's the same length.
2- stop games at a set interval. That's the media timeouts. It's in EVERY men's game that's on TV(and radio too I think). Every 1st deadball after the 16,12,8, and 4 minute mark there's a media timeout. It's no different than any other network.

and sorry with your black helicopter bull crap(and that's what it is)- but CBS doesn't influence the tourney selection process.

(01-27-2017 10:44 AM)stever20 Wrote:  but CBS doesn't influence the tourney selection process.

You might want to watch those committee spokesperson interviews during and after the selection shows, because that's not tin-foil hat stuff. It's been said numerous times over the years that the committee does have network consultants on standby to talk about things.

Whether CBS has an official say in the thing isn't the issue: why is the selection committee going to media consultants to begin with?

We also disagree with the cutaways and the length issue. I've seen my share of bad cutaways and rejoining games in-progress. That doesn't happen with certain carriers.

It's fine. If you think the game is fine, that's okay. I don't. I'm glad people can enjoy this, but I've lost interest in it over the years. The whole thing just seems too plastic and staged at times. Definitely longer and more drawn-out, and I think that comes at the expense of the integrity of the game. Others might not share that opinion, and that's fine.

I am a big time fan of college basketball and I am not even sure I would make it a point to watch it if it weren't for the fact that I think that UC will be in that top 16 sneak peak.