{"id":15983,"date":"2021-03-11T12:50:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/?p=15983"},"modified":"2021-03-11T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:51:15","slug":"turner-sports-and-cbs-sports-announce-2021-ncaa-division-i-mens-basketball-championship-commentator-teams-ncaa-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/turner-sports-and-cbs-sports-announce-2021-ncaa-division-i-mens-basketball-championship-commentator-teams-ncaa-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner Sports and CBS Sports announce 2021 NCAA Division I men\u2019s basketball championship commentator teams | NCAA.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/basketball-men\/article\/2021-03-11\/turner-sports-and-cbs-sports-announce-2021-ncaa-division-i-mens-basketball\">ORIGINAL STORY<\/a>]<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson to Call National Championship and Final Four National Semifinals for Sixth Straight Tournament<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jim Jackson, Lisa Byington, Brendan Haywood and Adam Zucker to Have Expanded Roles<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jon Rothstein, Andy Katz, Avery Johnson, Lauren Shehadi, AJ Ross, Tom McCarthy and Adam Lefkoe to Join NCAA Tournament Coverage for First Time<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>CBS Sports and Turner Sports will once again feature a marquee lineup of announcers for combined coverage of the NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Championship. All 67 games from the 2021 NCAA Tournament will be televised across four national television networks \u2013 TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV \u2013 and via NCAA March Madness Live, beginning\u00a0<strong>Thursday, March 18<\/strong>, with the NCAA First Four on truTV and TBS.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s NCAA Final Four National Semifinals on\u00a0<strong>Saturday, April 3<\/strong>, and National Championship on\u00a0<strong>Monday, April 5<\/strong>, from Indianapolis will be called by\u00a0<strong>Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and reporter Tracy Wolfson<\/strong>\u00a0on CBS. This is the sixth straight Tournament they have called the Final Four together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gene Steratore<\/strong>\u00a0will return as rules analyst throughout the Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>New and expanded commentator roles for this year\u2019s coverage will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jon Rothstein<\/strong>\u00a0serving as an insider within the controlled environment throughout the Tournament;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0appearing as game analyst from the First Four through the Regional Finals;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lisa Byington and Tom McCarthy<\/strong>\u00a0calling play-by-play through the Round of 32;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brendan Haywood and Avery Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0serving as game analysts through the Round of 32;<\/li>\n<li><strong>AJ Ross and Lauren Shehadi\u00a0<\/strong>joining as game reporters through the Round of 32;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adam Zucker<\/strong>\u00a0filling in as host and providing game updates from New York through the Regional Finals;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andy Katz\u00a0<\/strong>joining studio coverage from Atlanta through the Regional Finals;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adam Lefkoe<\/strong>\u00a0providing game updates from Atlanta during the First Round.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/basketball-men\/article\/2021-03-11\/turner-sports-and-cbs-sports-announce-2021-ncaa-division-i-mens-basketball\">ORIGINAL STORY<\/a>]<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0[ORIGINAL STORY] Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson to Call National Championship and Final Four National Semifinals for Sixth Straight Tournament Jim Jackson, Lisa Byington, Brendan Haywood and Adam Zucker to Have Expanded Roles Jon Rothstein, Andy Katz, Avery Johnson, Lauren Shehadi, AJ Ross, Tom McCarthy and Adam Lefkoe to Join NCAA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compassmedianetworks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}