ESPN Drafts Students to Help Broadcast College Basketball

 

With 11 minutes and 43 seconds left in the first half of a men’s college-basketball-game last week between Georgetown and West Virginia, players and fans on both sides pause for breath during an official timeout.

But in the ESPN production truck, deep in the bowels of the Verizon Center here, another team is in full swing. Technicians cue up graphics, producers joke about the Mountaineer coach’s decision to wear a tie with a track suit, and directors talk over one

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