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Everyone ready for another epic run by one of the Tournament’s most storied superpowers? No, not Duke...not Kansas...not UCLA—Billy Packer. Over the past century or two, B.P. has dominated the basketball airwaves, broadcasting from every Final Four since 1974. He was there when Bobby Knight and Indiana completed the last undefeated season in college basketball history; he was there when NC State won its famous upset championship on a slam-dunk; and he was there for Duke’s and Florida’s back-to-back championship runs. More importantly, though, he’s had something legendarily insensitive to say in every one of those years. Our two most recent favorites...

To a female ticket-taker in 2001 at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium: "Since when do we let women control who gets into a men's basketball game? Why don't you go find a women's game to let people into?"

Referring to Allen Iverson (who’s an African American!) in 1996:  “He’s a tough monkey.”

In honor of Billy Packer, we're keeping a running tab of his more interesting (read: horribly offensive) comments during the tournament. After all, anyone in this day and age with the guts/obliviousness to use a homosexual slur in describing a colleague’s work ethic, as Packer did in an interview with Charlie Rose last year, surely has cheeks stored with curious quotes ready to spew at any moment. Stay tuned.