Wonder what that means for the webcast. They've been using the home school's feed on the conference website throughout the regular season. But when you're at a neutral site for the tournament...

 

Great question on the blackouts outside of the MAC footprint.  I have been curious on this, but haven't been able to verify.  I believe they are blacked out on ESPN Full Court/ESPN3 only in the designated areas, which is largely Ohio.  Some of the TWCSC games have also been picked up by other provides (Comcast for a couple NIU games) and those also have been blacked out on directv on both the sports tier and ESPN FC/ESPN3 in the footprint.

If I'm right, for satellite at least, we've traded who gets to see the games.  Those in the MAC footprint do not, and those outside the MAC footprint, do.

While Directv does have TWCSC-type channels for other areas (LA for one) on their premium sports tier, those channels are blacked out for most of their content to viewers outside the area.  If Directv were to add TWCSC, those in the footprint should ideally be able to see the games live.  I called and gave the CSC rep my request, but I don't think we have the support to get that done anytime soon.  At least we can still watch the Pac-12 Network...oh wait, nevermind.

Of course, we can still see the game live on MACDN.  I've had more bad quality than good, and to avoid choppiness I've just listened to Russ/Rob.

The better news is at least we can see replays on ESPN3.  I've used that for each game and just watched it later.  The only gripe I have here is the screen size is hit or miss.  I've noticed a handful of games where its either boxed (looks non-HD), or stretched and the view stretches to the left/right and off the screen.  I thought it was the feed at first, but I noticed during the ESPN Buzzerbeater look ins (which are not blacked out), the feed is fine.