Billy Packer, award-winning college basketball broadcaster, dies at 82

Billy Packer, award-winning college basketball broadcaster, dies at 82

Announcer Billy Packer, who was called “the voice of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament” for decades, died Thursday, his son announced in a tweet. He was 82. He broadcast NCAA games for CBS starting in the early 1980s. The Wake Forest University Hall of Fame and he received the Curt Gowdy Award from the National Basketball Hall of Fame. In 1993, he earned the Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sport Personality/Analyst.