The Davidson staff met Vitale in Madison Square Garden earlier this season.
Dickie V to Descend on Davidson Saturday
2/3/2009 9:58:40 PM | Men's Basketball
DAVIDSON, N.C. – College basketball icon Dick Vitale will team up with Mike Patrick to call the action for Davidson's game against College of Charleston on ESPN2 in John M. Belk Arena at 6 p.m. Saturday night.
Considered by many to be the sport's biggest ambassador, Vitale joined ESPN during the 1979-80 season following a successful college and pro coaching career. Vitale called ESPN's first-ever NCAA basketball game – Wisconsin at DePaul on Dec. 5, 1979, a 90-77 DePaul victory. Since then, he has called close to 1,000 games, including NBA contests for ESPN during the 1983 and 1984 seasons.
“It's a real treat to have one of the true outstanding people in the game of college basketball be in our arena to call a game,” said Davidson coach Bob McKillop.
Vitale's talents and influence extend beyond just in-game analyst. He provides commentary on a variety of topics in his “Dick Vitale's Fast Break” segment, which airs Wednesday evenings during the college basketball season on SportsCenter, and serves as a college basketball analyst for ESPN Radio, including appearing each Monday on the “Mike & Mike in the Morning” show.
He has been a college basketball analyst for ABC Sports since 1988 and has covered the NBA Finals and the 1992 Summer Olympics for ABC Radio. His weekly ESPN.com column is one of the web site's most popular features. He's a regular contributor to ESPN The Magazine and is also a columnist for Basketball Times. He has served as a guest columnist for USA Today since 1991 and has been a featured guest on virtually every sports radio station across the nation.
Patrick is also a veteran play-by-play announcer for ESPN and worked on the network's Sunday Night Football telecasts from 1987-2005. In 2006, Patrick became the lead play-by-play announcer for ESPN on College Football Primetime along with Todd Blackledge and field reporter Holly Rowe. He has called the College World Series on ESPN for over a decade as well as several NFL playoff games for ABC Sports.
Saturday's game will be the 57th contest between Davidson and the College of Charleston, and the Wildcats posted a 79-75 victory in the season's first meeting, back on Dec. 29. It's a matchup of the top two teams in the Southern Conference's South Division, though both squads play league games Thursday night.
Considered by many to be the sport's biggest ambassador, Vitale joined ESPN during the 1979-80 season following a successful college and pro coaching career. Vitale called ESPN's first-ever NCAA basketball game – Wisconsin at DePaul on Dec. 5, 1979, a 90-77 DePaul victory. Since then, he has called close to 1,000 games, including NBA contests for ESPN during the 1983 and 1984 seasons.
“It's a real treat to have one of the true outstanding people in the game of college basketball be in our arena to call a game,” said Davidson coach Bob McKillop.
Vitale's talents and influence extend beyond just in-game analyst. He provides commentary on a variety of topics in his “Dick Vitale's Fast Break” segment, which airs Wednesday evenings during the college basketball season on SportsCenter, and serves as a college basketball analyst for ESPN Radio, including appearing each Monday on the “Mike & Mike in the Morning” show.
He has been a college basketball analyst for ABC Sports since 1988 and has covered the NBA Finals and the 1992 Summer Olympics for ABC Radio. His weekly ESPN.com column is one of the web site's most popular features. He's a regular contributor to ESPN The Magazine and is also a columnist for Basketball Times. He has served as a guest columnist for USA Today since 1991 and has been a featured guest on virtually every sports radio station across the nation.
Patrick is also a veteran play-by-play announcer for ESPN and worked on the network's Sunday Night Football telecasts from 1987-2005. In 2006, Patrick became the lead play-by-play announcer for ESPN on College Football Primetime along with Todd Blackledge and field reporter Holly Rowe. He has called the College World Series on ESPN for over a decade as well as several NFL playoff games for ABC Sports.
Saturday's game will be the 57th contest between Davidson and the College of Charleston, and the Wildcats posted a 79-75 victory in the season's first meeting, back on Dec. 29. It's a matchup of the top two teams in the Southern Conference's South Division, though both squads play league games Thursday night.
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