Not just Kentucky. You live a little too close to Chapel Hill to refer to basketball as “meaningless”. We’ll overlook the slip this time since you’re under duress. 
Dude—get a satellite dish, or cable. At least for a few months. When you limit your station choices by refusing to get yourself access to more stations, and you get what you get. Solve your problem for yourself. Yes, it’ll cost a little more, but if basketball is so important to you as you seem to make us think it is (and I’m not begrudging you that, seriously) then go ahead and get the cable. You can always cancel it later.
I’d rather whine about it, thanks. 
Hey now! That game is actually the one I am looking forward to most in the first round! I am a proud graduate of Central Michigan University, and it is not often that our team makes the Big Dance. I am also a graduate of the University of Michigan, who tends to make it more often than CMU but unfortunately not this time around.
The last time CMU made it was my junior year in college, when Dan Majerle was the Chippewas leading star.
"Fight, Central, down the field (or court, in this case!) fight for victory! Fight, fellows, never yield! We’re with you, oh varsity! Onward with banners bold! To our colors we’ll be true! Fight, Central, down the field! Down the field for CMU!
Varsity! Victory! Chippewas, we’re proud of our nickname! Varsity! Victory! Central is going to win this game!
(repeat the first part, up to “Down the field for CMU!”)"
DKW, you got more issues than just basketball v. redundant news coverage. Get help.
I had a feeling that’s what you’d say! 
I am Jack’s Hamburglar!
That’s it, I’m going home to Mother. A comment like that is considered grounds for divorce in Kentucky.
Seriously, though, it really surprises me the number of people who think we should shell out $50/month plus installation to see something other than continuous loops of the same footage all the time. Personally, I’d rather just sell the damn television and hang out in sports bars for a few weeks.
It really doesn’t make sense for the networks to go 24/7 all war, all the time. They can’t keep it up for the duration. This isn’t going to be just for a few weeks, or a couple of months this time. This is likely to be a pretty long haul, and constant coverage for months isn’t healthy for the anchors or for the public.