Hit the boss button and this shows up on your screen
If you non-sports-fans find your company’s internet running a little slow today, blame CBS. The TV network is streaming every game in this year’s NCAA tournament. Live. Free. Here.
Not that you’ll catch your bandwidth-stealing co-workers in the act. CBS includes a “boss” button on their video widget, which immediately converts the screen into a fake flow chart. The boss button got 2.77 million clicks during last year’s tourney.
The games begin at 9:20 a.m. today, with the main event, at least locally, being the Huskies’ game against Marquette at 4:20. I’m feeling pretty good about the Huskies’ chances, for three reasons:
1) Marquette’s entire offense is predicated around shooting three-pointers. The Huskies defend three-pointers very well, especially lately.
2) Marquette does not have a player who can defend Husky center Matthew Bryan-Amaning one-on-one. MBA is the key to today’s game. We know he can get to the basket. If he’s able to put his open two-footers into the actual basket, and force Marquette to double-team him, the rest of the floor will be wide open.
3) Marquette has won as a #6-seed each of the past two tourneys. #11-seeds usually win about 30 percent of these games, meaning that Marquette is “due” to lose. (Note to people who actually know something about probability: I’m not serious.)
Another local game of note: Tacoma kid Anthony Johnson, who wowed the basketball world by scoring 42 points in the Big Sky Championship, earning his Montana Grizzlies a berth in the tourney, (and himself some ink in the New York Times) will try to engineer another upset at 6:40 p.m. when #14-seed Montana plays #3-seed New Mexico.
If you are a grandpa and will be watching the games on “television” while churning butter and shoeing horses, KIRO is showing games on two channels–their regular 7, and their KIRO2 channel, which is 107 on Comcast (or 7-2 if you watch over the air HD).
KIRO’s schedule:
9:20 a.m., Florida vs. BYU (7)
9:25 a.m., Old Dominion vs. Notre Dame (KIRO 2)
11:45 a.m., Sam Houston St. vs. Baylor (KIRO 2)
11:50 a.m., St. Mary’s vs. Richmond (7)
1:45 p.m., UTEP vs. Butler (7)
4:20 p.m., Washington vs. Marquette (7)
4:25 p.m., Ohio vs. Georgetown (KIRO2)
6:35 p.m., Wake Forest vs. Texas (KIRO2)
6:40 p.m., Montana vs. New Mexico (7)
And here’s the full schedule:
| 9:20 am | Florida #10 | BYU #7 | CBS – HD (Regional) | ||
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9:25 am |
Old Dominion #11 | Notre Dame #6 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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9:30 am |
Robert Morris #15 | Villanova #2 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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11:30 am |
Murray St. #13 | Vanderbilt #4 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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11:40 am |
North Texas #15 | Kansas St. #2 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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11:45 am |
Sam Houston #14 | Baylor #3 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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11:50 am |
St. Mary's (Ca.) #10 | Richmond #7 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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1:45 pm |
UTEP #12 | Butler #5 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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4:10 pm |
N. Iowa #9 | UNLV #8 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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4:15 pm |
East Tenn. St. #16 | Kentucky #1 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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4:20 pm |
Washington #11 | Marquette #6 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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4:25 pm |
Ohio #14 | Georgetown #3 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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6:30 pm |
Lehigh #16 | Kansas #1 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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6:35 pm |
Wake Forest #9 | Texas #8 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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6:40 pm |
Montana #14 | New Mexico #3 | CBS - HD (Regional) | ||
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6:45 pm |
San Diego St. #11 | Tennessee #6 | CBS - HD (Regional) |
I’m not a really big fan of the tourney, but I look out the window and see a UW flag flying over Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel, right under the U.S. flag, so they’re certainly getting support from afar.
I’ll be watching this year’s March Madness in HD with DISH Network! Last year I didn’t have HD so I’m really excited for this round. I’m also revved up over that fact that DISH Network provides HD programming packages free for life, for those interested in free check out their website. I work for DISH so I know it’s really easy to get setup whether you’re a new or existing customer.