Billy Packer is covering his 25th NCAA Men's Basketball
Championships as an analyst, the last 18 for CBS Sports. In 1993, Billy Packer
won the Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality/Analyst.
Billy Packer joined CBS in 1981 from NBC Sports, where he
formed one of the most popular broadcasting trios ever with Dick Enberg and Al
McGuire. The threesome announced the 1979 National Championship between Larry
Bird and Magic Johnson. The game remains the highest-rated championship ever
(24.1/38). The 59-year-old author of three basketball books has been inducted
into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, the Wake Forest University Hall of
Fame, the National Basketball Hall of Fame (Gowdy winner) and the National
Polish Hall of Fame.
Did ya know?: Billy Packer's father was basketball coach at
Lehigh University, alma mater of AQB's Randy Williams. Billy Packer also is the
co-founder of the Tour DuPont, a U.S. cycling event, and the Tour of China.
Skinny: The best college basketball play-by-play analyst - there is a reason why
Billy Packer has done 25 championships; like his partner Nantz, Billy Packer
knows the game and its history very well; will criticize players, coaches and
officials.
