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Billy Packer was the counterweight to the ebullient Dick Vitale, both of them irreplaceable and equally important to college basketball, yet in completely opposite ways.
Billy Packer, a charismatic curmudgeon who played in a Final Four for Wake Forest and then broadcast 34 more of them as a TV analyst, died Thursday in Charlotte. He was 82.
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With partners on NBC and then CBS, and with a rapid, opinionated style, he was heard during every N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament from 1975 to 2008.