The Ohio Valley Conference announced today that they would be changing the format of their men's and women's basketball championship. The press conference was held in the conference room at the conference office. Click here to go to ovcsports.com where there is sure to be plenty of information about it, or click here to go to the ovc's blog to read about and see pictures of the event.
This was my first press conference actually and it was pretty interesting. I filmed the event with the conferences digital camera and intend to use some of the footage for this weeks OVC Insider show that we've been doing for a few weeks now. The abbreviated summary of the press conference is that the OVC is moving all 16 teams (8 men's, 8 women's) to one location, Nashville Municipal Auditorium, over a 4 day span rather than the current format of the first round on campus sites and the final 6 teams in Nashville. In one weeks time the OVC basketball championship will be held at the Sommet Center in downtown Nashville which will bring an end to its current format.
Speaking of the tournament next week, there is an indoor track and field championship this weekend held at Tennessee State. I'll be working that event with the camcorder in hand as I attempt to capture the event on film, or micro chips - wherever the footage goes now since they don't really use film anymore.
I ran track in high school so I'm fairly excited to get back in the environment, even if it is only indoor. After that though, I'll be filming a behind the scenes look at what our staff goes through in setting up our basketball tournament. Basically the Nashville Predators have a game the Thursday before our tournament so we'll be in the arena at 3 in the morning setting the arena to our specifications in preparation for the first tip at noon Friday. I'm not overly excited to be waking up at the time I was just going to sleep this past weekend, but I will be excited to put that behind the scenes piece together because it should be a pretty interesting look inside what we're doing for the biggest event of our year.
Also, Murray State won their bracket buster game this weekend giving them a 17 game win streak which is also the longest in the nation so....yea, no big deal...more importantly however is that while watching the telecast of the game, I discovered arguably the greatest play by play and color commentator tandem ever. Dan McLaughlin of St. Louis Cardinals fame and the occasional ovc men's basketball announcer and Brooke Weisbrod. HELLO. Looking at her bio on her website, linked above, she calls a lot of women's games, does some college football work with the MAC and SEC and calls men's games on the Big East Network. I'm going to see what it takes to get her on press row at our tournament where I will sweep her off her feet and ride off into the sunset.
Tell a friend, but not about Brooke...I don't need any more competition than what I already have!
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