The NCAA Tournament gets started again tonight and once again on the call at two different locations with be play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson and color commentator Bill Raftery. Raftery (featured in a great NY Times article) will handle Pittsburgh-Xavier and Duke-Villanova while Gus is on Louisville-Arizona and Kansas-Michigan State. The shame of the NCAA tournament is that we never get to hear these two guys together. I think they work great with their current partners. Raftery is with Verne Lundquist of Happy Gilmore fame while Gus, well it doesn't really matter who Gus is with, but he is joined by Len Elmore.I'm far from alone in having Gus as my favorite college play-by-player or Raftery as my favorite college hoops analyst - but we need to have some games with these guys together. Are we really ready for these two to be together? Maybe not, the energy would be completely off the charts. From Raftery opening the game signaling a team in "man-to-man" defense t...
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