• Try as CBS might, all those timeouts at the end of tight games make it impossible to please viewers as the network jumps from contest to contest. Like when Wake Forest's L.D. Williams traveled while out of bounds in the closing seconds of regulation in a tie game against Texas. There was brief video but no explanation. The replay and explanation finally came minutes later after a break for a Tennessee-San Diego State snippet.

• In the midst of Kansas State's blowout of North Texas, Kevin Harlan and Dan Bonner revealed Meatloaf, Norah Jones, Roy Orbison, Pat Boone and Don Henley all studied music in Denton, and Henley named his band after the North Texas State Eagles.

• Dick Enberg reported Baylor over Sam Houston State was the school's first tournament victory in 60 years, while Verne Lundquist reported St. Mary's won its first since 1959. Neither mentioned if he was at courtside working those games.

• Just as Lundquist will always mention the Texas high school a player attended, Enberg never fails to offer details on the Los Angeles-area high school that produced a player.

• Three Utah State Aggies suited up with Jason Terry-Rip Hamilton-like masks. Good thing they couldn't mount any kind of run through the tournament. A Sweet 16 berth might have meant teams all across the country would adopt the look.

• Cornell, a No. 12 seed, whipping Temple, a No. 5, didn't warrant TV time in Dallas.

• With Kentucky up 20 over East Tennessee State with 7:45 to go in the first half Thursday night, you had to wonder when CBS would switch games. When the Wildcats pushed the lead to 24 less than two minutes later, it was beyond time to switch. But CBS stayed with the game on Channel 11 until the Wildcats were up by 27 before mercifully switching to the Ohio-Georgetown game.

• Analyst Jay Bilas' technical term this tournament is "ball screen."

• Bilas thinks Texas freshman Jordan Hamilton is "a good-looking young prospect. He can shoot the ball. He just has to learn how to play."

• With Wake Forest up 64-60 with 3:51 remaining and Texas trying to score, here was Enberg's call as 6-10 Dexter Pittman tried to score from right in front of the basket: "Pittman misses. Pittman misses again. Pittman stripped." Offered Bilas, who has a Duke college and a law degree: "A microcosm of the Texas season."

• Analyst Bonner had to be grasping for something to say when he told his audience: "The key to the [Kansas State-North Texas] game is the point guards."

• Bill Raftery offered the most obscure comparison of the millennium when he said Ohio guard D.J. Cooper reminded him of Guy Rogers, who played for the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors in the early 1960s. I would have gone with Al Attles.

• CBS lead analyst Clark Kellogg will have two basketball playing sons at Ohio University next season.

• Northern Iowa is in Cedar Falls, plays in the Missouri Valley Conference and has a couple of gamers in Kwadzo Ahelegbe and Ali Farokhmanesh.

• The Big East needed an overtime win by Villanova over Robert Morris to avoid going 0-4 on the opening day.

• Gus Johnson didn't have to correct himself when during the Missouri-Clemson game, he said: "This game was tied at 39 at the end of halftime ... at the beginning of halftime, rather." No one scored during halftime.

• It took almost 38 minutes into Texas A&M's victory over Utah State for Tim Brando and Mike Gminski to mention the "G" word, as in Billy Gillispie. Mark Turgeon has earned at least that much.