While it was a good thing to see Dick Vitale make the Basketball Hall of Fame, it was a little embarrassing to see what ESPN made of it.

Vitale was one of seven people named to Hall of Fame on Monday, the night of the NCAA Basketball Championship. Among the others who will be enshrined are Pat Riley, Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing.

But to hear ESPN tell it, you almost wouldn't have known anyone else was involved at all. Vitale's was the first — and sometimes only — name mentioned.

There's no question Vitale is a beloved employee at ESPN; he's been with the network almost since its launching in 1979 and the adoration poured on him by fans at any college basketball game he attends is obvious.

The contributions he has made to the game are many and he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, but to place his selection ahead of the others was over the top, even for ESPN.

The up side? Riley joked this induction class on Sept. 5 should be best promoted ever because of Vitale.

Rock chalk ratings: Kansas' overtime win over Memphis in the national championship game was remarkable, but not quite remarkable to increase CBS' ratings over last year.

Monday's game earned a 12.1 rating with a 20 percent share of the audience, down 0.8 percent from last season's 12.2 and 20.

Meanwhile, Tennessee's women's victory over Stanford on Tuesday earned a 3.0 rating on ESPN. That's a 30 percent increase over last year.

The news shows: "E:60" returns 4 p.m. Tuesday on ESPN, headlined by a feature on Tiger Woods' caddie, Steve Williams. Wonder if he broke any of the network's cameras. The program will also have segments on amputee runner Oscar Pistorius and top NFL draft prospect Darren McFadden.

Tuesday is also the day for "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" (10 p.m., HBO). Featured will be a look at Barack Obama's love of basketball (which presumably is greater than his love of bowling). Also of interest is a piece on Angels outfielder Torii Hunter and a look at the death of Mike Coolbaugh, the minor league first-base coach who was hit and killed by a line drive last year.

Other notes: Game 2 of the Anaheim Ducks' NHL Playoffs series with the Dallas Stars will be at 7 p.m. Saturday on FSN Prime Ticket and Versus. Game 3 on Tuesday will be on KDOC (Channel 56). Radio coverage for the best-of-seven series will be on KTLK (1150 AM) for Games 2, 4 and 5 and on KLAA (830 AM) for Games 3, 6 and 7. Fox will show the Yankees and Red Sox to 95 percent of the nation for its 12:30 p.m. game of the week on Saturday. What about the other 5 percent? Phoenix and Denver get Colorado at Arizona.

ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" plans to feature Hall of Famers as guest analysts this season. The first will be Wade Boggs on Sunday. Others will include Juan Marichal (May 11), Phil Niekro (May 25) and Rod Carew (July 13). Buck Showalter will return to the show as an analyst starting Monday.

One cool thing about the Dodgers' 50th anniversary in L.A. is FSN Prime Ticket's "True Blue Story" series. During tonight's game against the Padres, you'll see one looking back at the 1963 season in which the Dodgers swept the Yankees — of all people — in the World Series. ...

Overkill: ESPN will show the University of Florida's spring football game at 10 a.m. Saturday.

— Jim Carlisle