The NCAA Tournament is bigger, better?

Fifty years ago, the NCAA Final Four (was not called the Final Four) was held at Cole Field House in College Park, Maryland and was in another stratosphere as a publicized/non publicized event.

The national semi-finals were played on a Friday night with the final the next night, a Saturday night game certainly not televised by a major network.

Now the event has grown to where each game, all 67 in the tournament are televised. Some of it is on over the air CBS, but most is not. Those games are on cable television, mostly Turner Sports but also True T.V.

Much has changed and I applauded when the tournament grew and actually even liked the announcers, Curt Gowdy and Al McGuire, to name two, while NBC telecast some of the tournament.

This year I will watch almost none but I will follow it, I suppose.

Curt Gowdy pictured above.