Nantz, who will call his in Houston, Texas, in April, paid tribute to his friend and colleague Friday. There was no one who could just look at the field — in this case, look at the court — and see everything. He’s going to be very much missed, but he loved college basketball, and he looked after it as a guardian of this sport. The ability to get involved in something that, frankly, he was going to watch anyway, was a joy to him. And then college basketball just sort of took off with Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, and that became, I think, the catalyst for college basketball fans to just go crazy with March Madness.”Joe Morgan is a Sports Reporter for Fox News.

Source: Fox News January 28, 2023 23:56 UTC