is anyone else really disappointed with the MMOD? i think the picture quality is absolutely terrible. i know, don't complain about something that's free, but hey..

I just wish I had a better internet connection here at work. I'm running crappy Verizon DSL. It feels like I have 3200 bps dial up. I even tried using Joost because they also have the MMOD and its just as bad. My earlier wood soon became an innie.

Welcome to the Madness, Carter Blackburn. Anyone else things he sounds like a younger Ian Eagle?

holy crap, apparently no one from Kentucky or Marquette wanted to make the trip to Anaheim to see this game. they should have had Stanford open this set of games to get some butts in the seats. This is the worst tournament game I've ever seen and the lack of crowd is part of it.

AA, my television says I am getting a Kansas/Kentucky/Duke/Notre Dame quadrupleheader. Congratulations to CBS for ESPN-izing the tournament. I think I'd rather watch "Deal or No Deal" than be forced to watch Duke. Thank God for MMOD.

Jay Bilas got some growl in his voice early. It's so cute when he tries to do his Bill Raftery impersonations.

Is the SID job for UNLV one of the hardest in sports? I mean, how often do you need to talk to players/coaches about not getting embroiled in some gambling scandal? Twice a month? Once a week?

Well, here comes my upset special for today - Oral Roberts over Pitt. I'll pull that one up on MMOD while Kentucky-Marquette is on the TV.

The mmod time out is really annoying. can't they play a sound or something so you know in case the window isn't open? and why can't you see the score and time of the game you're watching at the bottom of the screen? when the game goes to timeout you don't know what it is.

"Does Jay Bilas ever stop talking?"

Only when Greg Gumbel changes the game for me. And I wanted to see the Bilastrator.

When's the CBI live blog?

Deadspin's servers are crapping out faster than Kansas was scoring baskets, so you have my full attention AA.

The whole score symmetry of window one was spooky. All teams losing at the half scored 26. All teams that lost ended up with 61. Kentucky avoided the first half of this little spook fest with 29. I was nervous for awhile.

Mike Adamle is with WWE now. Messing up every line he tries to say. It saddens me. Guess it's good American Gladiators was never live.

I have great MMOD quality, idk what's wrong on your end. It gets slow occasionally, but that's more our speed connection than anything.

Finally, Kent State is sucking copious amounts of cock.

Had to turn on MMOD to watch the Purdue game. The quality is garbage. I'd gladly pay for $100 to get high quality video of the tournament.

LOL

anybody see that in the Baylor game? dude just threw it up, not down...never seen that before guess it doesn't count if you make the basket from the bottom of the goal.

Kent State is a #9 seed. That's just disgusting.

NCAA...where 10 points in 20 minutes equals a point every two minutes happens.

Kent State, nice work. You could see this coming, they blow. Well, I guess they're probably tired from every analyst on every network slangin their D. I did not hear one person pick UNLV or even discuss the possibility of them winning. Bilas and everyone were all over Kent's D.

So much for my upset special ... 39-18 Pitt is not the start I was looking for. (Nor is 31-10 UNLV, for that matter, but since Kansas is going to kill either of them it doesn't matter that much.)

AA, picking Georgia over Xavier?

Tsk tsk those trendy picks will get you nowhere!

*goes back to watching Baylor get blown out*

...goddamnit

In the Baylor game, Bob Wenzel just said: "His shoulders got square...that's why I made the shot."

Didn't realize you were on the team, Bob. Walk-on or transfer?

Where's Enberg?

I'm gonna have to go with joke B, although it gets a little uncomfortable...look at the way Bilas is shooting Blackburn that "Ohhh yeah" stare, shitty smirk...the tension is thick and I ain't talkin' bout the game.

That's the hack callin the game with Jay? No wonder he blows, what a tool.

Bilas: "When you give the guy the ball with the shot clock running down it is like handing him a hand grenade with the pin pulled out".

On the plus side ... at least the only mildly interesting game in this time slot is the one we get here anyway. The rest have gotten ugly in a hurry.

Why in the hell am i still watching the Kent game? This should be illegal.

You must be in Ohio or Nevada, mez.

It took Kent 3 minutes and 22 seconds to score what they did in the 1st half (10 pts). Their reward for this hurry up? The lead on them grew by a point (22 instead of 21).

Oops, make that 4 points.

No Wikipedia page for Mr. Carter Blackburn. Anyone care to start one for the intrepid young announcer?

Welp that's ballgame for UK. I'm calling it with 8 pt lead for Marquette with 9 mins left. Bring out the UK hate, I'll accept.

If there's one positive thing I can take from this...hopefully Patterson's ankle will be healed 100% for next year...

What's everybody drinking today? How's that for a conversation starter?

Bud Light. Go.

Carter Blackburn - son of Louis Winthorpe III and Muffy. Began career as an intern at Duke and Duke before completing his education in broadcast journalism at Yale. Likes hair gel, grey poupon and shopping at Brooks Brothers with his VERY white trohpy wife, Mimsy.

What the heck? Anyone else have an HD outage for the Kentucky-Marquette game? I'm just getting the SD feed on the HD channel with the black side bars

Had something happen to it here too, willmott.

Is there a worse time to "win" a jump ball than with 1 second on the shot clock? You're going to turn it over anyway, might as well keep the arrow.

I have MMM on Directv, and twice now all the games not on locally have gone out. Not that I'm missing anything right now. Anyone else having this problem?

Yep....same thing has happened to me DOS. Anyone else extremely bored with these games.

Kentucky keeps fouling away from the ball on a guy who's a terrible FT shooter, and they're not getting called for intentional fouls. That's ridiculous.

Crawford finally decides to hit a contested three....with 38 secs left.

*burps, indigestion*

This day has it's give and take, I'm a mess.

I agree about the timeout being annoying on MMOD. I'm just listening to the audio (video is choppy at work), so I am not looking at the screen that much, and then all of a sudden I am kicked out.

I know I've given Mr. Carter Blackburn, esquire, a bit of a tough time here. But, he's pretty decent. He doesn't take away from the game. He doesn't talk over Bilas - which is tough because Bilas likes to talk. Not bad, Mr. Carter Blackburn.

eh spartan they weren't intentional, they just happened to run into the guy...and slap him...no biggie

*wink*

Hopefully the Stanford game will actually be a contest. Otherwise, I might actually show my face at work today... at least for a few minutes.

Bilas: "the ball went off his noggin". Did he get a boo-boo on his tummy, too?

Carter Blackburn is a good broadcaster. Good enough to be a part of the 3 or 4 CBS team and getting a more national audience for his first game.

Blackburn is from a suburb of San Antonio, TX and once did a regional game for the NFL on FOX. I believe it was STL/SF opening weekend 2 or 3 years ago.

ball went off his noggin...

I was expecting to hear a "nyuk nyuk nyuk".

Noggin?

*rips up bracket and spits*

every goddamn year...

*cries*

Gotta give Carter props. Not a bad job at all. Kentucky, on the other hand, continues my streak of upset picks gone wrong.

Of course, they take us to UNLV-Kent State (which is, for all practical purposes, over) instead of one of the games with 6-7 minutes left (although those aren't exactly exciting either).

Don't like bolerjack and wenzel - well at least not wenzel. I'll turn it to Pitt v. ORU and see if Gus can make that frog-strangle interesting.

So who looks the youngest, Carter or Purdue's Scott Martin?

Tough choice Ross....I'd go with Blackburn. New thread going up around 630 or so. Have to find some food and drink some more Red Bull.

Who's got USC/KSU? Nantz/Packer or Lundquist/Raftery?

Who's got USC/KSU?

Kevin Harlan & Dan Bonner

And I guess Dick Enberg is doing the evening games because they are after Carter Blackburn's bedtime.

Harlan and Bonner. Nantz/Packer and Lundquist/Raftery are Friday/Sunday pairings.

Well... I got to watch Cornell/Stanford online as Houston is done until primetime. Thank goodness for T1. I get the MMOD perfectly.

WHAT THE HELL IS JEMELE FRICKIN HILL DOING ON COLLEGE GAMEDAY RIGHT NOW?!?!?!?!?!?!? JEMELE HILL?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ARE YOU SERIOUS ESPN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? ITS BAD ENOUGH THAT THEY STICK HER ON FIRST TAKE, BUT AN ACTUAL SHOW??????????? YOU'RE KILLIN ME ESPN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT, HAD TO REACH YOUR DIVERSITY QUOTA?????????????? ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC!!!!! JEMELE FRICKIN HILL IS ON ESPN COLLEGE GAMEDAY SCOREBOARD RIGHT NOW, ARE YOU FRICKIN KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Did Cornell's band just play Carry On Wayward Son?

The rookie, Carter Blackburn, just had the line of the tourney. When some Stanford kid completely blew a dunk Blackburn in the perfect tone said "Great defensive play by the rim." For some reason it justg worked so perfectly. I love this B&B Blackburn and Bilas pairing.

Blackburn is a youngster and is fresh. To be quite honest, Enberg can just stay away.

.....ummmm, I won't go as far as earlier posted, but Jemele Hill shouldn't be on College GameDay. Jimmy Dykes must be giving a seminar on getting inside a dude's jersey in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

BTW, Newcastle.

Stanford up 38-17 on Cornell at the half. Sounds like a football score, except Stanford's football team would probably be losing by that score. Unless they're playing USC.

Mal you left out the fact that Carter Blackburn was the victim of a twisted social experiment gone awry by the sons of Randolph and Mortimer Duke.

Brian, you have to talk about this announcing in the Stanford-Cornell game. Bilas and Blackburn have been creaming themselves over Cornell all game, even though Big Red has been pathetic. If you didn't know the score, you'd think Cornell was winning. I've heard Louis Dale's name more than Stanford itself. You'd think he was a first team All-American the way they are gushing over him. And the kid is 3-15 from the field!