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The Kevin Sheehan Show

My Billy Packer Interview

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Kevin Sheehan, Blue Wire

Football, Sports

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Legendary college basketball analyst Billy Packer passed away on Thursday night at the age of 82. Kevin interviewed Billy prior to the 2021 Final 4. It was one of Kevin's all-time favorite interviews. Billy's memory and storytelling from all of his years as the #1 college basketball television analyst were amazing. For college hoops fans, this is must-listen.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You don't want it, you don't need it, but you're going to get it anyway.

0:07.5

The Kevin Sheehan Show, here's Kevin.

0:10.8

Solid screen, Blake will pack.

0:13.4

Blake knows exactly what's coming up.

0:17.3

Coach Gay says hold up,

0:18.6

and Williams caught looking at his coach, and Blake scores.

0:24.3

Oh, my.

0:26.9

Great job by Steve Blake's anticipation, sensational.

0:33.2

That's the legendary voice of Billy Packer, alongside, by the way, another legendary voice, Dick Enberg,

0:40.7

as they called the 2002 Maryland Duke game at Cole Fieldhouse with that famous end of first half,

0:48.7

O'He Steel play when Steve Blake picked the pocket of Jason Williams as Maryland went on to Route Duke.

0:56.7

That was one of the final games at Cole Fieldhouse that year, the year that Maryland won

1:01.3

the national championship. Billy Packer and Dick Enberg on the call that day for CBS, not NBC.

1:07.9

I mentioned yesterday on the podcast that today I would put out as a podcast, as a standalone

1:15.6

podcast, the interview that I did with Billy Packer nearly two years ago. And I'm doing it for two

1:22.8

reasons. Number one, it's one of my all-time favorite interviews, certainly in recent years.

1:28.7

And number two, many of you, after finding out that Billy Packer had passed away on Thursday night,

1:34.4

reached out to me via Twitter to say that was one of your favorite interviews as well.

1:41.4

I'll give you the context for the interview here in a moment, but Billy Packer was

1:48.1

Billy Packer was the number one analyst on college basketball on two major networks, NBC and

1:57.2

CBS, from 1976 until 2008, when he called his final game with Jim Nance, it was the Memphis,

2:06.1

Kansas National Championship game. He had a 32-year run of being that sports number one analyst.

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