[81alum]

 Antonelli who called today's game was at the Bahamas tourney so I trust her inside information.

Do you mean the announcers that apparently only see PAC-12 games when they have to call them?  The ones going off 2-month old information?
The ones that went on about Stanford's poor FT%?   The ones that didn't realize Stanford had hit 74.4% of their FTA over the last 10 games (131 of 176)?

By the way, going into the game, the season FT% (67.8) for Stanford was better than South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and UConn, and nipping at the Tar Heels (67.9%)  (those are 6 of the top 10).    74.4% would lead every team ranked in the top 10.


Hats off to Iowa (85.5%) and Iowa State (81.3%)  for having a much higher FT% than any of the other top-25 (77.0% was the best of the other 23 of whatever top-25 I grabbed -- it still bounces around a lot).   I wonder why it is that those are from the same state?

Just stop. The ESPN crew did just fine today and was plenty complimentary of our team and program. I recall a game I listened to on Stanford live stream this season where our OWN announcer repeatedly called Tara, coach Heidi Vanderveer and never once pronounced Fran’s last name correctly. The ESPN crew not memorizing our stats from the past 10 games is a nonissue. Maybe it would help if we were on ESPN more but that’s the Pac12s fault with their media deals.

I watched the broadcast on ESPN replay last night after posting and I agree that the ESPN crew did much better with this game than in the past.  Certainly not perfect and not up to Mary Murphy standards, but far better than ESPN has usually done.  I sit right behind the broadcasters and can read their notes over their shoulders sometimes.  Pretty cool to see their prep work.  You can hear a few of my shouts in the crowd noise if you listen carefully.

This time the broadcasters arrived early and attended practice sessions for both teams for a day or two before the game.  This helped them be much more knowledgeable.  The disastrous broadcast that turned me off was when they flew in for Tara's record setter last year against Pacific.  Naturally they talked about Tara and setting the record--but that was all they talked about.  Ten points would go by before they bothered to notice that a game was going on.  IIRC, since people were not sure too far in advance what game it would be that Tara broke the record, that broadcast was a last-minute affair, and the announcers had clearly done no prep work about the players or teams involved.  Still, it was nice of them to be at a nothing-game just to report on Tara's accomplishment--even if they did embarrass themselves as sports analysts.

[81alum]

 Antonelli who called today's game was at the Bahamas tourney so I trust her inside information.

Do you mean the announcers that apparently only see PAC-12 games when they have to call them?  The ones going off 2-month old information?
The ones that went on about Stanford's poor FT%?   The ones that didn't realize Stanford had hit 74.4% of their FTA over the last 10 games (131 of 176)?

By the way, going into the game, the season FT% (67.8) for Stanford was better than South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and UConn, and nipping at the Tar Heels (67.9%)  (those are 6 of the top 10).    74.4% would lead every team ranked in the top 10.


Hats off to Iowa (85.5%) and Iowa State (81.3%)  for having a much higher FT% than any of the other top-25 (77.0% was the best of the other 23 of whatever top-25 I grabbed -- it still bounces around a lot).   I wonder why it is that those are from the same state?

Just stop. The ESPN crew did just fine today and was plenty complimentary of our team and program. I recall a game I listened to on Stanford live stream this season where our OWN announcer repeatedly called Tara, coach Heidi Vanderveer and never once pronounced Fran’s last name correctly. The ESPN crew not memorizing our stats from the past 10 games is a nonissue. Maybe it would help if we were on ESPN more but that’s the Pac12s fault with their media deals.

I watched the broadcast on ESPN replay last night after posting and I agree that the ESPN crew did much better with this game than in the past.  Certainly not perfect and not up to Mary Murphy standards, but far better than ESPN has usually done.  I sit right behind the broadcasters and can read their notes over their shoulders sometimes.  Pretty cool to see their prep work.  You can hear a few of my shouts in the crowd noise if you listen carefully.

This time the broadcasters arrived early and attended practice sessions for both teams for a day or two before the game.  This helped them be much more knowledgeable.  The disastrous broadcast that turned me off was when they flew in for Tara's record setter last year against Pacific.  Naturally they talked about Tara and setting the record--but that was all they talked about.  Ten points would go by before they bothered to notice that a game was going on.  IIRC, since people were not sure too far in advance what game it would be that Tara broke the record, that broadcast was a last-minute affair, and the announcers had clearly done no prep work about the players or teams involved.  Still, it was nice of them to be at a nothing-game just to report on Tara's accomplishment--even if they did embarrass themselves as sports analysts.