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Duke-Belmont Plusher Than I Recall
By Matt Sussman | Mar 24, 2008 | Filed Under Basketball
Oh my god, they actually did this.
NBC17, the Raleigh/Durham affiliate, was unable to attain highlights of NCAA basketball games from CBS, so to show the highlights from Duke’s near-loss to 15th-seeded Belmont, they… well… yeah, they did that. Seriously, local TV can rule sometimes. ◼ → Fark
That’s my station, Penn came up with the idea the idea two years ago with the Florida national championship in football. He used the old school electronic board for that and this time he wanted ideas and I pitched Lego’s a la bat girl and that morphed into dolls and stuffed animals.
PS There is also one for the UNC game which I thought was better.