Even as I basked in the glow of reflected glory from our beloved Men’s B-Ball team—final four bound—after the game last night, I was left with a question that had irked me from the first half onward. Why, when the ball was at UNC’s end, did we hear loud chants of “DEFENSE! DEFENSE!” from in-crowd mics, but when the Hoyas were under attack, nary a Georgetown voice was heard? I was positive that Hoya fans would make themselves heard, so it must have been CBS muting Georgetown supporters. Well, it was a combo of the two. One on-site correspondent reports that CBS covered up the Georgetown section’s in-crowd mic because the Hoyas were yelling “BULLSHIT!” at every bad call—apparently, the FCC doesn’t like it when you broadcast that. Either way, Atlanta here we come …
–Posted by Tim Fernholz, Managing Editor.
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