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Legendary college basketball broadcaster Billy Packer dies at 82

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Friday, 27 January 2023 04:25
Legendary college basketball broadcaster Billy Packer dies at 82 Legendary college basketball broadcaster Billy Packer dies at 82
Billy Packer, an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, died Thursday. He was 82. Packer's son, Mark, told The Associated Press that his father had been hospitalized in Charlotte for the past three weeks and had several medical issues, and ultimately succumbed to kidney failure. Packer’s broadcasting career coincided with the growth of college basketball. He worked as analyst or color commentator on every Final Four from 1975 to 2008. “He really enjoyed doing the Final Fours,” Mark Packer said. “He timed it right. Everything in life is about timing. The ability to get involved in something that, frankly, he was going to watch anyway, was a joy to him. And then college basketball just sort of took off with Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and that became, I think, the catalyst for college basketball fans to just go crazy with March Madness.” Packer played three seasons at Wake Forest, and helped lead the Demon Deacons to the Final Four in 1962, but it was his work as an analyst that brought him the most acclaim. #WakeUpCLT READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/college-basketball-broadcaster-billy-packer-dies/507-6f732ef1-2fc4-4fbc-8365-4aa103cb29c7
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