This weekend, St. Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli will be helping to man the Atlanta portion of CBS/Turner’s coverage of the NCAA Tournament. Indiana’s Tom Crean has the guest analyst for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with Matt Winer, Steve Smith and Seth Davis. It will be that cast minus Crean that Martelli will join during the weekend. We have the details from CBS/Turner.
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…from Turner Sports and CBS Sports:Saint Joseph’s head coach Phil Martelli will join CBS Sports’ and Turner Sports’ coverage of the 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, serving as a guest analyst in the Atlanta studio. Martelli will join the studio team of host Matt Winer and analysts Seth Davis and Steve Smith, working the Third Round games on Saturday, March 19 and Sunday, March 20, which will air across TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV.
Martelli has served as the head basketball coach of the St. Joseph’s Hawks since 1995 and was named the 2004 consensus National Coach of the Year. Before becoming head coach, he was an assistant coach with the program for ten years. Prior to his arrival at SJU, Martelli spent seven years as head basketball coach at Bishop Kenrick High School and also served as an assistant coach at Widener. Martelli has 26 years of NCAA coaching experience, including 16 years as a head coach.
CBS Sports’ and Turner Sports’ exclusive coverage of the 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship continues with second-round coverage tomorrow, Friday, March 18 (12:00 NOON-12:00 AM, ET), with all games available live in their entirety across four national television networks: TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV.
More coming up later.
