Steve Scheer is a basketball junkie. He had often fantasized about eavesdropping on a coach’s huddle during timeouts. The short, edited snippets on some telecasts were hardly enough to satisfy his appetite for access.

Unlike most fans, though, Scheer was in a position to fulfill his wish. As a senior coordinating producer for college basketball at Fox Sports, and a 37-year sports television veteran, Scheer’s suggestion for an all-access, commercial-free, live basketball telecast was able to become a reality.

On Friday, when St. John’s played at Seton Hall in a Big East Conference women’s basketball game, both head coaches wore microphones throughout a commercial-free telecast on Fox Sports 2. Viewers were able to hear not only what was said inside the huddle, but also the live interactions and directions from the sideline and the coaches’ talks inside the locker rooms at halftime.

It is believed to be the first time a network has provided this amount of unfiltered content in a live sports presentation. The one concession was that the game was broadcast with a five-second delay to censor any colorful language (though that did not turn out to be entirely effective).