That college basketball turned from a sport in which twenty minutes took thirty minutes to play into a sport in which twenty minutes takes forty-five minutes to play speaks volumes about the role television has played in its development. As a side note, its interesting to see the changes in broadcasting between this 1976 tourney contest and the famous 1979 final between Michigan State and Indiana, where, although the feel of the game itself had changed little, the announcers had definitely learned to hype it more effectively, for better or worse.
I Could Watch This Sort of Thing All Day
That college basketball turned from a sport in which twenty minutes took thirty minutes to play into a sport in which twenty minutes takes forty-five minutes to play speaks volumes about the role television has played in its development. As a side note, its interesting to see the changes in broadcasting between this 1976 tourney contest and the famous 1979 final between Michigan State and Indiana, where, although the feel of the game itself had changed little, the announcers had definitely learned to hype it more effectively, for better or worse.
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