THE ZAPPER
John Walters
March 30, 1998
The final minute of the Utah-West Virginia nail-biter in the NCAA regional semifinals last Thursday dragged on for nine minutes in real time partly because it was saturated with 4� minutes of ads. A week earlier, the last minute of the first-round game between Iona and Syracuse took 13:01, loaded as it was with 6:45 of commercials. By contrast, Sunday's tight Duke-Kentucky regional final had no spots in its last minute, which may be why it provided some of the tournament's most scintillating viewing.
The final minute of the Utah-West Virginia nail-biter in the NCAA regional semifinals last Thursday dragged on for nine minutes in real time partly because it was saturated with 4� minutes of ads. A week earlier, the last minute of the first-round game between Iona and Syracuse took 13:01, loaded as it was with 6:45 of commercials. By contrast, Sunday's tight Duke-Kentucky regional final had no spots in its last minute, which may be why it provided some of the tournament's most scintillating viewing.