The ABC/ESPN tag team of Brent Musburger, the venerable play-by-play voice, and Steve Lavin, the hip but grounded analyst, acknowledged how quiet it has become.
And it had nothing to do with Tuesday night’s traffic backup on the campus arteries leading to the Kohl Center; an annoying “rush hour” gridlock which delayed the arrival of many University of Wisconsin men’s basketball ticket-holders. Nor did it have anything to do with the unthreatening presence of a struggling, second-tier Big Ten opponent….
But maybe you noticed, too, how quiet it has become; a deafening silence, if you will, since Dick Vitale has been sidelined since mid-December with health issues.