The good-natured ribbing occurs between 1:40 and 2:30 of the video, after Buccigross sneaks in a little shot at Memphis' inability to win that national title (which now wouldn't exist!) in 2008.

Growing up on college basketball in the mid-'90s, I always loved Big Monday. If you fall in my age range (27 to 33 years old), you probably did too. I loved how the sport was so relevant on the national scene. Was it all in my head? Who knows. These days, it's hard to argue college basketball's slow slip into the background until late February. I still do love Big Monday, ... Read More

When Bobby Knights speaks his mind at ESPN (which has been rather tame), he's paid attention to and not disciplined by anyone. Ever. When someone who is not Knight speaks out To be fair, Knight hasn't said anything as stupid as what Jemele Hill (shocking!) said last week. On the Jemele Hill said (and I am paraphrasing) that UK fans would be fine with “Charles Manson as coach”, so long as ... Read More

Here's who he had in regard to college basketball. Best game analysts: Jay Bilas, Len Elmore, Fran Fraschilla, Clark Kellogg, Steve Lavin, Bill Raftery. No Gottlieb? Gottlieb's gotta be on that list, Richard. He's the most unafraid voice speaking on college basketball today. It's more impressive that he does it under ESPN's umbrella. Best play-by-play: Dan Shulman. Shulman gets the pick for general play-by-play duties, but his work in college basketball had ... Read More

This was addressed when I interviewed ESPN president George Bodenheimer last year, and it's only going to grow and grow as the option for the NCAA to opt out of its contract with CBS next year gets closer. Burke Magnus, the man who decides what college sports goes on where and when at ESPN, admitted the obvious to USA Today's Michael McCarthy recently when he said The Juggernaut would be interested ... Read More