Brian Zoubek’s playing time may be on the upswing this year, but his newfound exposure doesn’t seem to have extended to the realm of college basketball announcers.
During Tuesday’s 73-56 win over N.C. State, the Raycom analysts called Zoubek “Greg” for a large majority of the first half, apparently not even realizing they were mistaken until there were about five minutes left in the half.
This isn’t the first time this has happened, either. During Duke’s multiple games on ESPN over winter break, analyst Len Elmore also repeatedly called Zoubek “Greg,” seemingly without recognizing his mistake.
What’s going on here? How can analysts possibly be confusing the 6-foot-1 Greg Paulus with the 7-foot-1 Zoubek? Does Zoubek have a nickname unbeknownst to everyone else? Or is there simply a plague of misinformation running rampant among college basketball announcers?
You’re too young to remember the immortal Greg Koubek (T’91)
Probably got something to do with this guy… http://www.dukeupdate.com/Alumni/greg_koubek.htm
Maybe they are confusing him with former Duke basketball player Greg Koubek
Greg is a jerk. Brian Plays hard. No mistakes there.
The “old-timers” may have a former Duke player, Greg Koubeck’s name ingrained in their memories: Zoubek, Koubeck.
Greg Koubek was an old Duke player. They confuse the two of them.
That would certainly make sense. Even still, seems like a strange mistake to make, and to make consistently… at one point I believe the announcers, when reading the starting lineups which said “Brian”, still referred to him as “Greg.”
You know who it could be? Greg Koubek!!
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