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Baseline to baseline, we’ve got the basketball games covered
March 14, 2011
(Cross-posted on the
LatLong
and
Student
blogs)
Do you hear the dribble on the court and the chanting of the fans? Following an action-packed week of
buzzer beaters
, the 2011 NCAA® Championship here in the U.S. promises to be as exciting as ever.
As a college hoops fan, I often wish I could experience the games sitting in the arenas—and I’m sure I’m not alone. This year, our
college basketball tournament map
lets you get as close as you can to the games without leaving your desk thanks to 3D models of the tournament’s 14 arenas. Take a virtual tour of the venues by watching the
video
below, or
download this tour
and open it in
Google Earth
.
Plus, we’ve created a
special page
for you to keep track of all the excitement during the next few weeks. You can see an up-to-date tournament schedule, explore the college campuses in Street View and click through to watch the actual games on NCAA® March Madness on Demand®. You can also create a bracket using Google Docs, read Google News articles on the games and download basketball apps from the
Chrome Web Store
. It’s all here (along with a fun surprise) at
www.google.com/collegebasketball2011
.
And since there’s been a
long-running debate
over whether teams playing closer to their home court have an advantage, we added a “Distance Tool” on the
map
to make it easier to measure how far schools have to travel from game to game. We’ll see how things play out, but the defending champion Duke Blue Devils may have to travel more than 2,000 miles to Anaheim if they win their first two games.
As my friends always say when we can’t wait for the tournament to begin, “
Send it in, Jerome!
” May your favorite school reach the finals and we hope you enjoy all the basketball fun at
www.google.com/collegebasketball2011
.
Posted by Aaron Weissman, Google Maps Marketing (
San Francisco King of the Rock winner
)
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