The visitor’s radio crew seating location at George Mason’s EagleBank Arena is adjacent to the visitor’s bench, which presents broadcasters with welcomed insight regarding what players and coaches do, and an unwelcomed visual challenge associated with coaches’ movement.
Wednesday night, Spiders coach Chris Mooney regularly stood in front of UR broadcasters Bob Black (play-by-play) and Scott Ungerer (analyst) as Mooney observed on-court activity or communicated with players and officials.
Here, the 6-foot-7 Ungerer, a former Spiders standout, had the advantage over Black when they stretched right or left to get a view around the Mooney blockade. Ungerer’s lean went much farther. He occasionally informed Black of developments Black could not see. Ungerer’s getting the hang of this job.
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Ungerer this season took a seat next to Black, UR’s play-by-play man in football and basketball since the early 1980s, following the death of Greg Beckwith. Black’s broadcast partner for the past 21 seasons, Beckwith, a star Spiders point guard in the 1980s, died of a heart attack in May. He was 60…