I should go down to Lucas Oil and say hi to Gus.

Is it just me or has Gus Johnson seemingly been ripped off? Even though Indy has our only double-digit seed in the Sweet Sixteen, it seems to me that it is the least compelling region of the four. Just my take it on it, I'm sure at least someone disagrees with me.

But at the same time, though, I feel like it's a point not worth making because GuJo in Indy the most sense when you consider that he is technically on the 4th team. You've got Nantz and obviously he's going to be in Memphis with all of the marquee matchups. Verne and Raft seemingly always end up in the northern areas, Dick Enberg is generally out west (him being placed in Philly made very little sense, especially seeing as CBS likes to keep him out west as much as possible), and then all that's left is GuJo in Indy. So what I am saying is that he is most likely screwed (and we in turn are most likely screwed out of something dramatic) but at the same time, the screwing makes perfect sense. Yeah. That's it.

/Don't queston how my mind works. It is a mystery even to me sometimes...

I think Michigan State/Kansas is one of the better matchups of the tournament. I think that matchup will be pretty damn compelling compared to something like OU/Syracuse or UNC/Gonzaga.

Does the fact that this year's bracket is chalk bolster the point about the BCS? I hope not.

/seriously, I'm not trying to threadjack

note to self...avoid Indy...douchebaggery alert - do not go to restaurants

Is it me, or does Bill Raftery always go to games that has more east coast schools. He was in Dayton which had two number one seeds from Big East. Now he is in Boston where Pittsburgh, Duke, and Villanova all from the East Coast.

Is this Gus's first Sweet 16 appearance?

GMoney, he was on the call when Gonzaga choked away the West regional game against UCLA a couple years ago. Almost positive that was Sweet 16 2 vs 3.

Gus is indeed the number four team, he will be moved up soon as I believe Enberg is on his way out, I would like to see either Eagle or Harlan move up. As much as Nantz is great, the star team for CBS has to be Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery. In the end in less than ten years, the tournament will be on ESPN.

@ TomahawkFlop: Yes, that was indeed the Sweet Sixteen. And also, his "the slipper still fits call!" when Gonzaga upset Florida 10 years ago was also in the Sweet 16, IIRC.

I was hoping that Lundquist/Raftery would be one of the teams. I am not disappointed.

No complaints on the announce pairings. I do question CBS' wisdom in putting two Big East powerhouses UConn and Pitt on at the same time. I would have switched the days of the Glendale and Indianapolis games. I realize with five Big East teams in the Sweet 16 you have to put two of them on at the same time. Louisville however is still hard to think of as a "Big East" team except in name only so it would have made the most sense to pair them with one of the others.

Hey JFein,
Enberg used to call UCLA games in the Wooden era. And UCLA played 'Nova for the title in '71 That's why he probably ended up in Philly.

Also, Raft lives in Jersey. Maybe that's why he's "up north". Don't know where Verne lives. Maybe "up north"?

I think the days of the regional sites was determined in advance.

The only year GuJo hasn't called the Sweet 16 was two years ago when James Brown muscled his way in there.

If the tournament does move to ESPN, there would be rioting in the streets if ESPN didn't find a way to bring GuJo on board (with the added bonus of having a larger audience hear him calling college football than he gets now calling the NFL).

Would he still be #4 then? Because three of the four Sweet 16 color men work for ESPN, it's pretty easy to see what the teams would be for the Sweet 16, assuming no one else leaves or enters: Musberger/B. Knight, Nessler/Bilas, Shulman/Raftery, G. Johnson/Elmore. I could actually see Johnson/Elmore passing Shulman/Raftery in that scenario; I don't see Johnson and Raftery being teamed for the same reason CBS would never do so, especially if ESPN keeps most of the tournament on ABC.

(Incidentially, the other four first-two-round teams would be M. Patrick/Vitale, Franklin/Fraschilla, and then if games stay on ABC, I think Disnergy strikes to preserve teams for the NIT and Women's Tourney and promote the NBA, meaning the last two teams are Tirico/H. Brown and Breen/M. Jackson/J. Van Gundy - any NBA time slots on Friday or Sunday would be taken by the Tourney anyway. Otherwise it's Sean McDonough and Terry Gannon paired with Jimmy Dykes and Stephen Bardo in some order.)