Bill Raftery, Grant Hill to join Jim Nantz for Final Four
The Final Four this year will be served with a giant helping of Onions!
Turner Sports and CBS Sports announced Tuesday that Bill Raftery — known for many signature sayings, including "Onions!" after a gutsy play — and Grant Hill will call the NCAA Final Four and national championship.
Hill and Raftery will join the team of Jim Nantz and reporter Tracy Wolfson to call games together throughout the 2015 NCAA tournament, culminating with the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Final Four and National Championship from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Raftery, 71, has been telling fans that defenses are in "man-to-man" or that a shot banked in "with a kiss" for more than three decades during the NCAA tournament. But this is his first Final Four for TV after 23 years of handling the radio call.
For Hill, it will be his first season as a game analyst during the tourney, when a replay of his gravity-defying alley-oop from the 1991 title game will no doubt be shown more than a few times. The 42-year-old Hill won two national championships at Duke, then played 19 seasons in the NBA before retiring and joining Turner Sports in 2013. He was a studio analyst during last year's tournament and works NBA games for Turner.
Contributing: The Associated Press