NCAA Tourney Selection Show changes format
PSA: the selection show wil have a brand new format this year. A little heads up because there are some major changes that will certainly make some grumble
- Will air on TBS instead of CBS. Sorry, they only want those paying $100+ a month for cable/satellite to see this now live.
- ALL 68 qualified teams will be announced within the first 15 minutes. But not matchups. So no suspense if you're a bubble team. If you're a fan of said team that got left out, you can turn your TV off almost immediately.
- Once teams are announced, you'll have to wait for matchups and when/where the teams will play. Supposedly to be dished out within 50 min.
- It'll move back to a 2 hour show rather than the recent 90 min program.
- Latter half of program will be analysis of the matchups
Personally, most upset with the change from CBS to TBS. But I guess that gives me 2 hours of my life back since I don't have cable.
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2018/03/ncaa_tournament_selec…
edit: Also mentioned in the article that I forgot to point out.... it is not clear when the seeds will be announced. Which most of us want to know regarding MSU/UM and playing in Detroit.
edit2: "ALL 68 teams will be announced at once" in second bullet changed to be more accurate
way overrated. Why not release the brackets, then like 2 hours later, run a show where the hosts and "experts" reveal their analysis and brackets, and they interview some coaches, etc?
Is anyone actually sitting there with a blank bracket and filling in teams???
I hate change. My sister just informed me that she wants to have our annual bracket contest money get paid out through pay pal. I was like heck NO I dont want to get a pay pal account just to play the bracket contest for March Madness!!!.................. NOW PLEASE GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
No, it was only partially broken, so they broke it way more!
They've already caught them on the corrupt scale.
Not one person has ever seen the selection show in the new format. Nobody has any idea if it's good or bad. Maybe it will be good? I don't know but...Greg Gumbel and the thing, with the... we're that attached to that production?
What if they fire the mascot of the 68th team out of cannon? Or Mark Emmert sits down and does a hat dance to select the last 4 in? I'm going glass-half-full on this one.
Good point, it's not like the existing show is all that great.
For an event that gets guys like Lunardi famous just for predicting what it will say, the selection show is one of the most underwhelming productions in TV history.
I'll read 15 Bracketology threads on here and come back hungry for more, but I'm bored with the actual selection show after 5 minutes.
It could be so much more . . . the natural drama and interest are there.
show for suspense and import for those of us impacted.