Billy Packer

Anthony William "Billy" Packer (born Anthony William Paczkowski, February 25, 1940) is a former American sportscaster and a published author. Packer spent more than three decades as a color analyst for television coverage of college basketball.

Packer was born Anthony William Paczkowski in Wellsville, New York. The Polish surname was changed subsequently from Paczkowski to Packer by his parents. His father, Tony, was an outstanding athlete at St. Lawrence University in football, basketball and baseball, and was later inducted into the University's Hall of Fame in 1982. Tony's 35 years of service at Lehigh University included 16 seasons as the school's men's basketball head coach from 1950 to 1966. The younger Packer is a graduate of Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from 1958 to 1962 and played guard on the school's basketball team for his last three years (at the time, freshmen were not eligible for varsity sports), leading Wake to two Atlantic Coast Conference titles and the 1962 Final Four. He was a member of the Delta Nu chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity.

After graduation, he had a brief stint as an assistant coach for his alma mater. In 1972, Packer began his career in broadcasting in Raleigh, North Carolina, when he was asked to fill in as color analyst for a regionally televised ACC game. Packer became a regular the next season.

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