re: WBB : ESPN + LHN = Bristol West?

think this is a bit :tinfoilhat:

ESPN is a business and as a business they will always have a bias towards things that make them money. They also have announcers and those announcers naturally have a human bias. These two things may create the appearance of an agenda.

Duke is being talked about because they are really good. The announcers may not be familiar with SEC WBB. If you asked me to call an SEC football game, I could provide in depth analysis of a lot of it because I'd seen them all play. If you asked me to call a B1G game, I might spend the time talking about Bama or MSU or the playoffs. Or I might talk about what restaurant I went to last night because frankly I don't have shite to say about Purdue or Illinois.

Give the announcers time to learn the teams. The network is new and many of the teams are new to them. But long term it's going to be impossible not to be biased towards the SEC simply because a WBB recruit is like 5 times more likely to be on national TV playing for an SEC school that any other school. That's going to be a huge boon.