Just received this from the fine people at CBS/Turner Sports. Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard will be a guest analyst for the March Madness on Demand portion of the NCAA Tournament. That means he’ll be seen during halftime and other studio segments online whether it be on the March Madness on Demand website or the MMOD mobile apps for iPad/iPhone/iPod. We have details right here.
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…from Turner Sports and CBS Sports:Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard will join March Madness on Demand’s coverage of the 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, serving as a guest analyst for the Second Round’s afternoon and primetime games on Thursday, March 17 and Friday, March 18. All games will be available on MMOD, which is available on NCAA.com, CBSSports.com and SI.com. In addition, every game will be available nationally on live television across CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV.
Willard just completed his first year in the Big East Conference as head coach of the Seton Hall men’s basketball team. Prior to that, he spent three years as head coach at Iona College, where he was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. Willard also spent six years as an assistant and associate head coach at the University of Louisville, working under coach Rick Pitino. While at Louisville, the team reached the postseason in each of his six years, including the NCAA Tournament four times and a visit to the Final Four in 2005. Willard also was a coaching associate for the Boston Celtics for four years. He spent three years of his collegiate career playing at Pittsburgh, after playing one year at Western Kentucky.
The newly enhanced NCAA March Madness on Demand (MMOD) live products will be available across multiple digital platforms, including online (http://mmod.ncaa.com), as an iPhone and iPod Touch app, and for the first time, as an iPad app. NCAA March Madness on Demand will provide live streaming video of every game of the new 68-team tournament as they are broadcast by Turner Sports and CBS Sports, starting with the First Four™ from Dayton, OH on March 15, and continuing through the Men’s Final Four® semifinals and national championship game from Houston, TX on April 2 and April 4.
That will do it.
