The answer to the question posed here yesterday is, says Sports Illustrated:

If you are a diehard fan of the men’s basketball teams of Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky or Wisconsin, CBS Sports and Turner Sports will conduct a television experiment this Saturday that might appeal to you.

For the first time in the tournament’s 76-year history, both national semifinal games will be televised on cable. The TBS broadcast will feature play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz, analysts Greg Anthony and Steve Kerr, and reporter Tracy Wolfson. That telecast, as is the case with most national broadcasts for sports, will aim for broadcaster neutrality.

Now here’s where it gets interesting. While each semifinal game is airing on TBS, the networks of TNT and truTV will simultaneously air team-specific presentations (with separate production crews) tailored to each of the schools competing in the semifinals. These “Teamcasts” will feature custom music, custom graphics, team-specific replays, additional cameras geared toward one team, and a custom halftime show. Most importantly, they will feature broadcasters who have been hired specifically to appeal to that fan base. The broadcasters will be encouraged by Turner and CBS to be over-the-top homers for those schools. …

The Kentucky Teamcast will air on TNT. Longtime Kentucky sportscaster Rob Bromley — he works for WKYT-TV in Lexington — will serve as the play-by- play announcer. He’ll team with former Kentucky basketball star and 12-year NBA veteran Rex Chapman, who will serve as the analyst. WKYT-TV staffer Dave Baker will be the courtside reporter.

The Wisconsin Teamcast will air on truTV. Wayne Larrivee, the radio voice of the Packers and a Big Ten Network college basketball and football announcer, will provide play-by-play commentary. He’ll be joined by former Wisconsin basketball player Mike Kelley, who played on the school’s 2000 Final Four team and was the 1999 Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year.

Obviously Larrivee is qualified for this. (So am I, but TBS didn’t notice.) I don’t think Larrivee is an “over-the-top homer.” Kelley works on two levels — he analyzes games for the Big Ten Network, and of course was the starting point guard on UW’s last Final Four team.

Hopefully we’ll find out the answer to the question the headline poses, since that would require a Badger win to find out.

(Some people don’t like Larrivee’s “dagger.” There is far worse out there — for instance, former Marquette TV announcer Rod Luck denoted the game-clinching moment as claiming “the cat’s in the bag and the bag’s in the river.”)