{"id":349567,"date":"2025-10-18T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/349567\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:11:10","slug":"webber-returning-to-tnt-for-college-hoops-pearl-gets-cbs-tnt-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/349567\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber returning to TNT for college hoops; Pearl gets CBS, TNT roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TNT Sports is bringing back one of its most prominent NBA analysts and adding one of college basketball\u2019s best-known coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Former TNT NBA lead analyst Chris Webber is returning to the company as a college basketball studio analyst, it was announced Thursday. Webber worked for TNT from 2008-21, primarily serving as an NBA game and studio analyst, but also working NCAA men\u2019s basketball tournament games from 2015-19.<\/p>\n<p>In his new role, Webber will contribute to TNT Sports coverage of the Thanksgiving week \u201cPlayers Era\u201d event and other \u201cadditional key moments\u201d during the season. It is unclear whether that would include the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Webber, TNT Sports announced that it is hiring former Auburn coach Bruce Pearl as a studio analyst. Pearl \u2014 who worked for ESPN from 2012 until he left for the Auburn job in 2014 \u2014 is also joining CBS Sports as a game and studio analyst and will work in-studio on CBS\/TNT Sports coverage of the NCAA men\u2019s basketball tournament.<\/p>\n<p>TNT Sports will fill out its regular season studio lineup with former ESPN NBA analysts Jamal Mashburn and Jalen Rose, the latter of whom is a regular TNT Sports contributor. Adam Lefkoe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmediawatch.com\/2025\/08\/tnt-candace-parker-extension-adam-lefkoe-allie-laforce\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was previously announced<\/a> as host.<\/p>\n<p>Former Michigan teammmates Webber and Rose \u2014 who would seem to have patched up their years-long rift \u2014 have never worked on the same studio show before.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, TNT Sports chief content officer Craig Barry touted the new studio team as the latest example of a \u201ccertain DNA that is unique to TNT Sports\u201d and said the company takes \u201cgreat pride in assembling the right blend of personalities capable of extending that culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TNT Sports \u2014 formerly known as Turner Sports \u2014 is entering its first fall without NBA rights since 1988, the first year of the TNT network. To compensate, the company has sharply increased its college basketball inventory, which this season consists of 72 BIG EAST men\u2019s and women\u2019s games and a slate of Big 12 men\u2019s games that were acquired when the company agreed to license its \u201cInside the NBA\u201d studio show to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously announced that Candace Parker will serve as a game analyst on the TNT college basketball slate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TNT Sports is bringing back one of its most prominent NBA analysts and adding one of college basketball\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,55537,39391,231,772,55538,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-349567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball-analysts","11":"tag-college-basketball-on-tnt-sports","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaa-tournament-on-cbs-turner","15":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115395106146805677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}