It's kind of disrespectful, IMO. Seems like they did that for another NU game this year as well. Further evidence of the ESPiN conspiracy against Nebraska!
I wonder how hard that would be to announce a game you are not attending.
On whistles, it was definitely difficult for them to verify if a foul had been called or not and, if so, on who, unless they could hear whichever of the 3 stooges was making the call to the scorer's table.