By now, you think we’d be used to watching sports in a pandemic, but last night’s Champions Classic still found a way to be surreal.
No fans were allowed in to Bankers Life Fieldhouse for Kentucky vs. Kansas, and ESPN decided not to pipe in crowd noise, leaving shoe squeaks, bench screams, and the occasional wail from John Calipari as the only sounds alongside the commentators. In fact, the broadcasters themselves weren’t even in the building, with ESPN’s Dan Shulman and Dick Vitale calling it from their homes and Tom Leach and Mike Pratt doing the radio call from a bunker somewhere in the Bluegrass:
The road game setup is a little different this year as @tomleachKY and @MikePratt22 bring you tonight’s game from Lexington.