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EarthBoundMisfit · 01-27-2023 10:25 AM

Long time NCAA Tourney game analyst Billy packer has passed away, at age 82.
RIP...

UofMark · 01-27-2023 10:29 AM

The voice of college hoops for many years. He did a great job. There are a few good ones today, but his stature was really high.

k2tigers · 01-27-2023 11:42 AM

last game he did as an analyst was Memphis - KU in 2008

CRM114 · 01-27-2023 06:55 PM

(01-27-2023 11:42 AM)k2tigers Wrote: last game he did as an analyst was Memphis - KU in 2008

Missed hearing him do games these past 15 years. I recall in the first half of one of the games in '08 where he said something like this about our opponent: "Coach better call a time out right now because Memphis is about to blow them off the court." Which is pretty much what we did.

Dynamos · 01-27-2023 07:17 PM

Boom outta here

roachman48 · 01-29-2023 11:05 AM

Did he want Memphis State job when we hired Bartow? I want to say I heard that in the past.
But anyway, I enjoyed him as an announcer. RIP

Tiger87 · 01-31-2023 11:32 AM

(01-29-2023 11:05 AM)roachman48 Wrote: Did he want Memphis State job when we hired Bartow? I want to say I heard that in the past.
But anyway, I enjoyed him as an announcer. RIP

I've never heard, but I'm guessing you're thinking about his often broadcast partner, Al McGuire.

**450bench** · 01-31-2023 12:32 PM

I thought Packer was great. He loved Keith Lee. He said more than once that Lee was one of the best college basketball players ever and one of the very best he’d ever seen.

tigerengineer · 01-31-2023 07:46 PM

You knew your team was playing a big time game if he was on the call

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