Fifteen minutes of infamy.(Static)(networks limit length of televised college basketball games )(Brief Article)

Fifteen minutes of infamy: The NBA used to get shoehorned into a two-hour scheduling window, but with games getting longer, ESPN and ABC relented and are allotting 2 1/2 hours per exposure. Now college hoops routinely runneth over two-hour confines. When Duke-Wake Forest consumed 2:15 (in regulation), ABC had a safety net, an eminently truncatable NBA Hangtime. But this was unaccustomed luxury. Men's or women's, Silver Anniversary or Judgment Week, the ESPNs are holding to two-hour allocations. Ah, that's why we've been missing tipoffs on Big Monday and Super ...