"ONIONS!" for everybody at this year's Final Four
One good thing has stemmed from Greg Anthony's arrest and subsequent indefinite suspension from his job as a basketball analyst for CBS Sports.
A heaping triple order of "ONIONS!" during the Final Four.
CBS and Turner Sports jointly announced Tuesday morning that popular analyst Bill Raftery will replace Anthony on this year's Final Four broadcast alongside play-by-play man Jim Nantz. They'll be joined by former Duke and NBA standout Grant Hill, who will fill the spot vacated when Steve Kerr left to coach the Golden State Warriors last spring.
The addition of Raftery is a well-deserved reward for his decades of broadcast excellence and promises to be universally well received in college basketball circles. Raftery, who will call his 33rd NCAA tournament this March, has long informed audiences with his sharp analysis while also charming them with his wry sense of humor and well-known catch phrases.
Hill will make his debut as a game analyst after serving as a studio analyst for the first time during last year's NCAA tournament. He showed promise last spring and seemed more well prepared than some of the other NBA analysts Turner Sports has parachute into the college game for a few weeks at a time — Reggie Miller and Charles Barkley, especially.
Nantz, Raftery, Hill and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson will work together for the first time during the Big Ten tournament when they call the semifinals and finals together on CBS. The rest of the NCAA tournament broadcast pairings will be released at a later date.
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Jeff Eisenberg is the editor of The Dagger on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at daggerblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!
