following along
we had been testing out the various options since last October's baseball playoffs. with the advent of the NCAA tournament today we can now say in no uncertain terms that the CBS Sportsline scoreboard is hands down the best of its kind. when you are on the main page, it's constantly updating itself in very close to real time while filling you in on the last play in good detail, telling you what happened and who did it (it differentiates between layups and slam dunks, and even uses terms like "floating jumper" while also noting assists and the like). it's almost as good as the radio in terms of following the ebb and flow of the game. when you go to an individual game page, you can see more clearly how the momentum shifts. here's a series of plays that led Charlotte to cut Texas Tech's lead from 12 to 8:
TXTECH 17:26 Defensive Rebound by Darryl Dora
TXTECH 17:14 Lost ball turnover on Devonne Giles, Stolen by Curtis Withers
CHARLO 17:08 Martin Iti made Slam Dunk, Assist Demon Brown
TXTECH 16:41 Jarrius Jackson missed 3-pt. Jump Shot
CHARLO 16:38 Defensive Rebound by Demon Brown
CHARLO 16:34 Eddie Basden made Slam Dunk, Assist Demon Brown
TXTECH 16:27 Full Timeout
Demon Brown? you can practically hear Dick Vitale screaming or Billy Packer prosletyzing. and the best part is they haven't had any noticable slowdowns or dropouts - they were obviously well prepared for the amount of traffic they knew was coming. moral of the story? ESPN sucks. (and go Jaspers! up by 10 w/ 12 to play!)