Game 225 - Tennessee vs. Wisconsin

November 21 at Lahaina Civic Center in Maui, HI
ESPN2

This was game No. 225 at this site, but amazingly, the first time we've had a chance to listen to Bill Walton.

All I can say is: wow!

Bill Walton has upwards of 400,000 thoughts going through his mind at all times, and the only thing that stops him from saying all 400,000 is that there's another announcer. Otherwise, he's the first sports announcer in history to go a perfect 400,000-for-400,000.

Walton started the game - a 74-62 Wisconsin win - by talking about the things he loves, which are as follows:

1. His bike
2. Maui
3. Rick Barnes
4. "all those guys" when referring to a bunch of authors, including
5. Robert Louis Stevenson
6. Banana bread

Throw in several mentions of Tennessee native Davy Crockett while the Volunteers erased an early, 12-0 deficit and actually led by two points early in the second half, including -

"The spirit of Davy Crockett!"
"Davy Crockett, here we come!"

- and asking play-by-play man Roxy Bernstein if he'd ever been to

- Nashville
- Canada
- the state of Tennessee
- the state of Wisconsin
- Maui

and asking him who is his favorite "Hawaii author" (?) (Bernstein chose Stevenson, perhaps out of confusion/fear)

and we've got a thoroughly enjoyable broadcast.

Well done, Bill.

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