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Posted: 2023-01-27T14:03:18Z | Updated: 2023-01-27T14:03:18Z

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Billy Packer, an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, died Thursday. He was 82.

Packers son, Mark, told The Associated Press that his father had been hospitalized in Charlotte for the past three weeks and had several medical issues, and ultimately succumbed to kidney failure.