It revived Vandross’ version in 2011 and has stuck with it, cementing its enduring popularity. There were fewer Duke players in there, and they rebelled.”Īfter fans revolted, CBS gave them what they wanted. Who knows how that would have played out if the visuals (would have been different). If you would have told me years before that she’d be singing, I’d pinch myself. It was inadvertent, but it had nothing to do with her performance. Unfortunately, CBS used perhaps more of her face in the actual video, and they got a lot of blowback from it. “She’s a magnificent singer, truly is, and really a pro. “I was all for changing up,” Barrett said. Much of the criticism focused on Hudson being too present in the highlight package. But CBS pivoted to Jennifer Hudson in 2010, and her rendition drew enough ire from shocked fans that the network scrapped it after one year. ET): The original photo on this story did not depict Lisa Byington and has been replaced.For the previous seven years, Luther Vandross’ unmistakable, velvety voice had soundtracked the biggest moments of March Madness. I’m going to be excited, as anyone that would be for this kind of opportunity.”ĬORRECTION (March 15, 2021, 10:10 p.m. “I got a text message from (Turner announcer) Brian Anderson right as the selection show was starting and all it said was, ‘If you don’t feel butterflies right now, you are a robot.’ So that made me feel good about what I was feeling. “My mom always told me when I was a little kid, that if you don’t feel those butterflies, then you realize you don’t care,” she said. ![]() There will be some nerves, but Byington said that has happened even when she played basketball and soccer at Northwestern. “When I look out on the court, it’s the same sort of sport that you call all year long and those are the simple things, the basic things that you have to remind yourself in this kind of situation,” she said. Byington was also the reporter when Smith and Spiro Dedes were the announcer crew from 2017-19.Ĭurran: In GOAT debate, always remember Brady's ‘insane' durabilityĮven though there will be more people watching the games, Byington said she will take the same approach as she did throughout the season. The two have known each other since she was a reporter in Lansing, Michigan. A year later, she called a Major League Soccer game alongside Danielle Slaton and Katie Witham in what was believed to be the first all-female broadcast of any of the five major men’s professional leagues in the United States.īyington will call games with former NBA and Michigan State standout Steve Smith. She was the first woman to do play-by-play for football on the Big Ten Network in 2017. This is only the latest milestone for Byington. I look at this as just one part of a bigger story.” ![]() “In terms of the history piece, this is one step closer to get to a point of where we want to go. “Watching this event has always been the Super Bowl for me, so you can kind of put that in perspective of what it means,” Byington said. ![]() Get Boston local news, weather forecasts, lifestyle and entertainment stories to your inbox. CBS and Turner usually have eight announcer crews for the first weekend but will have 10 this year. She said discussions about calling games began in early February. She has called college football and basketball on Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network as well as the WNBA’s Chicago Sky and some local broadcasts of Chicago Bulls games.īyington has been a part of CBS and Turner’s coverage of March Madness since 2017 as a reporter. Her first game will be a South first-round matchup between top-seeded Baylor and Hartford, which will air on truTV.īyington will call four first-round games and some additional second-round matchups. Starting Friday in Indianapolis, Byington gets her own shining moment when she becomes the first woman to call play-by-play for an NCAA men's tournament game. Lisa Byington's favorite event since she was 10 years old has been the NCAA Tournament after she saw Indiana's Keith Smart hit the game-winning basket and David Barrett's “One Shining Moment” played for the first time.
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