Anthony William Packer whose birth name was Anthony William Paczkowski was an American sportscaster and a published author. He was born on February 25, 1940, in Wellsville, New York, United States.

Packer spent more than three decades as a color analyst for television coverage of college basketball. He attended Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and continued to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he graduated in 1962.

While in college, he played guard on the school’s basketball team for his last three years, where he averaged 14.8 points per game, 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.

Billy Packer cause of death: How did Billy Packer die?

Packer died of kidney failure on January 26, 2023. He was aged 82. Notably, he was also the author of Hoops, Why We Win, and many other basketball books. Packer has three children with his wife Barbara.

Two of his children namely Brandt and Mark, work in sports media. Brandt works as producer for Golf Channel and Mark is a sports radio host based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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