Samuel L. Jackson Goes Scorched Earth On ESPN For Coverage Of Iowa-South Carolina Game

While you may have had a pleasant viewing experience during the NCAA women’s basketball championship game, Samuel L. Jackson did not.

The "Pulp Fiction" and "Glass" star was watching the Iowa Hawkeyes take on the South Carolina Gamecocks for the title Sunday. It was a solid matchup that culminated in an 87-75 victory for South Carolina, which finished the season 38-0.

While the game itself was great, Jackson thought that ESPN’s commentary of it was terrible.

Samuel L. Jackson did not like ESPN's coverage of the women's college basketball final. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)

The sports network had two primary broadcasts of the game running simultaneously: live commentary by Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi from The Bird & Taurasi Show, and the standard play-by-play. Jackson wasn’t a fan of either, and torched the Bird and Turasi for what they "provided" during the game.

"Who TF @ESPN thought this podcast commentary is a good idea??!! I never knew I needed an ABC feed before!!!" Jackson said in a post on X.

Motherf—r, he didn’t pull any punches with that tweet!

He didn’t lay off criticism on the ABC broadcast of the game either. Jackson thought that Ryan Ruocco, Rebecca Lobo and Holly Rowe spent too much time talking about Caitlin Clark and the Hawkeyes at the expense of the Gamecocks, who actually won the game.

I didn’t watch the Bird and Taurasi feed, so I’ll take Jackson’s word for it (he’s probably right anyway). But I did watch the game from start to finish, and I thought the ABC broadcast did a decent job of staying neutral.

Nevertheless, Jackson is certainly entitled to his own opinion, and I certainly won’t try to pick a fight with him over it. He is Nick Fury after all, and when he speaks, you listen.