<table> </table> Billy Packer played for Wake Forest in the 1962 Final Four and never attended another until 1975.</p><p>That&#8217;s when he slipped on a headset alongside Dick Enberg and broadcast his first of 34 Final Fours.</p><p>Now that his career with CBS ended in 2008, Packer says he won&#8217;t attend another Final Four.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been there and done that,&#8221; said Packer, who was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday night as a contributor to the game.</p><p>Packer&#8217;s first Final Four as a broadcaster, in 1975 for NBC, turned out to be UCLA coach John Wooden&#8217;s last game &#8212; when the Bruins beat Kentucky for the championship.</p><p>Packer didn&#8217;t notice much difference in the Final Four between 1962 in Louisville and 1975 in San Diego.</p><p>&#8220;It really started to explode later than that,&#8221; Packer said. &#8220;I think the expansion of the tournament process, more than the television, was the key.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s why Packer believes some of the pioneers of college basketball such as former Big Eight and Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke, former North Carolina State athletic director Willis Casey and early television executives such as C.D. Chesley and Eddie Einhorn deserve induction into the Hall of Fame before television analysts of today.</p><p>&#8220;It hurts in a way to see some guys you know belong here before you do,&#8221; said Packer, 68. &#8220;You&#8217;re appreciative of getting into the Hall of Fame, but without a Wayne Duke expanding the tournament or Einhorn putting it on TV, we never get to this point.&#8221;</p><p>Packer harkens back to the days when the tournament was limited to just conference champions, but Duke and Casey pushed for at-large teams, starting in 1975.</p><p>&#8220;Could you imagine what the tournament would be like if it wasn&#8217;t for guys like Wayne Duke who said we have to expand it?&#8221; Packer said.</p><p>Packer began his broadcasting career in 1972 covering Atlantic Coast Conference games before joining NBC Sports in 1974, eventually teaming with Enberg and the late Al McGuire in becoming one of sports&#8217; most popular broadcast teams. He moved to CBS in 1981-82 when Michael Jordan hit the game-winner for North Carolina, and he ended it in 2008 when Kansas&#8217; Mario Chalmers&#8217; buzzer-beater sent the title game against Memphis into overtime, in a game eventually won by the Jayhawks.</p><p>Packer had served as master of ceremonies for the first two Collegiate Hall of Fame inductions, so being on the receiving end Sunday night was a new experience.</p><p>&#8220;I can honestly say, it&#8217;s better to give than receive.&#8221;</p><p><hr class="infobox-hr-separator" /> <div class="infobox"> <strong><span class="infobox-head">He said it </span></strong><br /> &#8220;Basketball has given us much more than any of us up here ever gave to the game.&#8221;</p><p><strong>| Billy Packer</strong></p><p><strong><span class="infobox-head">They said it </span></strong><br /> &#8220;Billy was consistent in what he did &#8230; he has such a passion and love for the game. And he passed the test of time doing something for more than 30 years.&#8221;</p><p><strong>| Dick Vitale on Billy Packer </strong></p><p></div>