I'm pretty sure Horizon went free a year before the MAC did, and with generally similar-to-better quality streams. I'll double-check tomorrow's UNI-Milwaukee game if I remember to. I recall thinking they were a leader in that area, and hoping the MAC would emulate (which they did quicker than I expected).

Of course, none of that is relevant to Butler any more.

watching the EMU/UMass game, there is no reason why EMU should have a video broadcast that is so much better than ours. The camera is at center court and high enough to see all 10 players on the court at the same time, the info graphic is small and professional looking and includes the teams' logo, the half designation, the game clock AND the shot clock. And their two awful announcers are in stereo.

take my money, Ohio Athletics Dept., and fix this. I'm begging you.

The webcast from Oakland was much, much better than ours from the Convo.  No buffering, higher resolution, clock on the screen, multiple cameras, and even instant replay.  (And yes, no aspect ratio issues.)

Don't know about anybody else, but I had buffering issues sporadically throughout the game.

The timing on most of their replays was lousy, too.  They cut out some of the buckets and other important live action -- for both teams -- to show a replay.  I'm sure we were getting the video feed that was running on their scoreboard, but damn it was annoying.  And sometimes they seemed to use the replay to correct their often-wrong scoreboard.

It was a free feed, but over-the-air broadcasting is free too so I have high expectations even from free feeds.

Yeah, their replays were terrible and didn't make sense.