BobRingReflections

It’s almost that time of year again - March Madness and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.  I watch a lot of college basketball on TV during the regular season, but the Tournament is special, and as a basketball fanatic, I try to watch as many games as possible.  (If you’re a fan, you know that, early in the Tournament, that amounts to 16 separate games in a single day - on successive days!)   Last year, I wrote about March Madness - haranguing about problems with the TV coverage, including scheduling, broadcast organization, sideline interviews, the length of games, repetitive TV commercials, studio-game sound differences, and aggressively pushing gambling on Tournament game broadcasts.                                   (See https://bobringreflections.blogspot.com/2022_04_11_archive.html ) This year, watching the final conference basketball games leading up to the Tournament, I was reminded in game after game how often the end of the game is maddeningly extended.  So, let’s tal