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No Room for March Madness in Nebraska State Capitol

neb-capitolLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers will have to watch the Big Dance after work.

Nebraska Chief Information Officer Brenda Decker told legislative and judicial administrators in an email that websites for streaming the 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament are blocked on the Capitol’s network. Sen. Bob Krist of Omaha read the message to his colleagues on Wednesday, saying the information office has received complaints about difficulties watching games online.

Decker says the state purchases bandwidth based on normal day-to-day activities. When government employees stream lengthy video, it eats into the network’s capacity for regular state business.

Decker says the state has prevented websites from showing March Madness for at least a decade as well as other major events, including Tiger Wood’s return to public competition in the 2010 Master’s Tournament.

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