CBS Sports and Turner Sports Announce 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Commentator Team
By: Caryn Robbins Mar. 11, 2016
Turner Sports and CBS Sports will once again feature a marquee lineup of announcers for their sixth year of combined coverage of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. All 67 games from the 2016 NCAA Tournament will be televised across four national television networks - TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV - and via NCAA March Madness Live, beginning Tuesday, March 15 with the NCAA First Four on truTV presented by Northwestern Mutual.
This year's NCAA Final Four National Semifinals on Saturday, April 2 and National Championship on Monday, April 4 from Houston will be televised on TBS with team-specific "Team Stream by Bleacher Report" coverage available via TNT and truTV. Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and reporter Tracy Wolfson will call the Final Four National Semifinals and National Championship for the second consecutive year. New roles for this year's coverage include: Brian Anderson, Steve Smith and Dana Jacobson teaming together to call games through the Regional Finals;Carter Blackburn providing play-by-play for the first two rounds;
Wally Szczerbiak joining the Atlanta studio team from the First Four through the Regional Semifinals;
Ros Gold-Onwude joining as reporter;
Swin Cash serving as a studio analyst for the First Four games.
Ernie Johnson and Greg Gumbel will again host studio coverage from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City during the first full week of the tournament, joined by Charles Barkley, Clark Kellogg and Kenny Smith. Johnson will host studio coverage from Atlanta during the second week of tournament action, while Doug Gottlieb joins studio coverage from New York. Studio coverage originating from Turner Studios in Atlanta, hosted by Matt Winer during the first week, will feature analysts Szczerbiak, Seth Davis and college coaches.
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