Tipoff Time?

[Beeeej]

Sportsline.com lists the game as 4:40pm.  Is that pregame coverage?  Every other source, including CSTV, says 5pm.  I'm actually bringing my boss, now (the perfect excuse for leaving work early for a basketball game is that your boss is, too), and he really doesn't want to miss any of it.

[Rita]

They are ~9  minutes into the KY-Marquette game. The Cornell-Stanford game tips off 20 minutes after the completion of that game.

You can track the KY game (in real time) at ESPN.com or on CBS sports and plan your departure according to time left and traveling distance to the bar.

[Beeeej]

[quote Rita]They are ~9  minutes into the KY-Marquette game. The Cornell-Stanford game tips off 20 minutes after the completion of that game.

You can track the KY game ESPN.com or on CBS sports and plan your departure according to time left and traveling distance to the bar. [/quote]

Seriously?  That's the standard?  There's no scheduled tipoff time?!

[Rita]

Seriously.

The KY-Marquette game is also being played at Anaheim. They can't have a "set" tip time since the game could run long, go into OT etc. The tip times that they do post on the scoreboards and schedules are estimates based on a 2 hr b-ball game (with TV timeouts and all) and ~20 minute warm-ups.
 
They have to give the next teams time to run through their warm-ups, final pep talk, and player introductions.

[Beeeej]

Okay, that all makes sense.

But then why does CBS Sportsline list it at 4:40 and CSTV at 5?

Anyway, luckily I can leave the decision as to when to head over to Mercury Bar up to my boss.  But the fluidity to the schedule is pretty annoying.

If anybody's paying attention, and they want to drop me an e-mail at beeeejesq at gmail dot com when the KY/Marquette game ends, I'd be grateful for the heads-up whether I'm still here or not.

[Rita]

I think CBS sports line updates the tip time once the teams get on the court for warm-ups. I just saw that they adjusted the tip times for the Purdue game (now at 3:09) and the Pitt-Oral Roberts game (3:05).

I still cannot figure out why CBS schedules so many concurrent games and why they have to have a "local news" break. There are plenty of place to get local news that they can pre-empt it for 2 days of NC$$ b-ball. Why don't they have games starting every hour or so rather than these 5 minute staggered start times?

5:27 left in the 1st half of KY-Marq.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

[quote Beeeej]Okay, that all makes sense. But then why does CBS Sportsline list it at 4:40 and CSTV at 5?[/quote]

Rita's right.

I'm sure the reason that CBS Sportsline is alone in listing the tip-off time as 4:40 p.m. is because they want you to tune in to the broadcast early enough to catch wall-to-wall between-game advertising interrupted by wee snippets of highlights -- a broadcast which, of course, is on CBS.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote Rita]

I still cannot figure out why CBS schedules so many concurrent games and why they have to have a "local news" break. There are plenty of place to get local news that they can pre-empt it for 2 days of NC$$ b-ball.[/quote]

Maybe because the 5-8 PM time slot is the most lucrative for local stations?

[ugarte]

[quote Rita] why they have to have a "local news" break. [/quote]
They have to have a local news breaks because the affiliates would go apeshit if they lost (a) the local revenue from the news broadcast and (b) market share as their loyal news viewers who don't care about basketball took a look at the competition while that infernal basketball was on instead of local news.

And the rolling start times are probably an attempt to show the exciting finish of game 1 without having to cut away from the exciting finish of game 2 and so on and so on.

[Rita]

[quote ugarte][quote Rita] why they have to have a "local news" break. [/quote]
They have to have a local news breaks because the affiliates would go apeshit if they lost (a) the local revenue from the news broadcast and (b) market share as their loyal news viewers who don't care about basketball took a look at the competition while that infernal basketball was on instead of local news.

And the rolling start times are probably an attempt to show the exciting finish of game 1 without having to cut away from the exciting finish of game 2 and so on and so on.[/quote]

They probably wouldn't have that problem here in IN, showing basketball is fine, canceling Oprah and Dr. Phil for NHL hockey is not.

I wish the rolling start times were more spread out, say every 20 or so minutes. But then Bryant Gumbel and Clark Kellogg wouldn't get their requisite number of minutes on air.

The FREE internet NC$$ on demand audio/video service is way cool. B-]

[ugarte]

Tick tick tick ... as the final seconds elapse in Marquette's win, the 5:00 start time is looking pretty close to accurate.

See you at Mercury for the second half.

[upperdeck]

all those problems were gone years ago when ESPN ran the show and spread the games out over 12-13 hrs instead of jamming them into 8-10 like CBS does..  I still miss the 11:30PM game from the west coast. now the eat coast gets half the games when we are at work and the west coast gets no real prime time games.. they should run 2 games every hour at most then the never get caught with 2-3 ending at the same time and still have a backup if one is a blowout..  and now that they have something like CSTV to show games the news shouldnt be a issue..

[Al DeFlorio]

CSTV guys saying 5:10pm start time.

[mnagowski]

I'm getting a blue screen here...

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

ESPN is saying 5:15