Welcome to March Madness: The guests are CBS's Andrew Catalon and Steve Lappas
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Episode 603 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features CBS Sports college basketball broadcasters Andrew Catalon and Steve Lappas. This will be their 11th year calling the NCAA men's basketball Tournament together. The duo (along with Evan Washburn) will work the NCAA men's basketball tournament through the Regional Finals. In this podcast, Catalon and Lappas discuss why their partnership works; how they prepare for the NCAA tournament; getting the
March Madness assignment an hour before the brackets come out; what it meant professionally to call No.16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson’s monumental upset over No.1 Purdue in 2023; the challenges of learning the lower-seeded teams; a quick look at Duke, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, and UConn; who the best player in college basketball is right now as it relates to potential pro success; Catalon's work on The Masters; Lappas's daughter, Kristen Lappas, who has become an accomplished documentarian; getting rest between calling March Madness games and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm your host, Richard Ditch. |
| 0:10.1 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:11.8 | Two guests this week, but if you are a college basketball fan and you watch the NCAA tournament every year, |
| 0:19.6 | these two gentlemen will be very, very familiar, |
| 0:22.0 | as they have called some memorable games over the last couple years. |
| 0:26.1 | Andrew Catalan and Steve Lapis, along with Evan Washburn, |
| 0:30.5 | called the NCAA men's basketball tournament through the regional final. |
| 0:34.2 | They, of course, also work together on CBS men's basketball games. |
| 0:39.8 | Andrew calls in the NFL and golf as well. And this will be their 11th tournament that they've |
| 0:47.0 | called together for March Madness. And with that, I welcome Andrew Catalan and Steve Lapis. |
| 0:51.6 | Hello, fellas. Richard, great to see you and be with you. |
| 0:55.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, Richard, great to see you. |
| 0:58.4 | All right, so we're taping this a little bit before the tournament starts. |
| 1:01.5 | So just so listeners know, like, I can't ask Andrew and Steve about specific matchups |
| 1:06.5 | because they don't have them yet. |
| 1:08.5 | But here's where I want to start, Andrew. |
| 1:11.6 | CBS sent this over in terms of, I was curious how many games you two had worked together. |
| 1:18.5 | And Bailey over at CBS said, she didn't have the exact number, but she thought it was in the 350 range. |
| 1:26.8 | And so I know you've had a lot of partners before, but I wonder if you |
| 1:29.5 | just reflect on that. Like, what's it like to call games with a singular person, that many games? |
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