On Monday, CBS announced that Clark Kellogg would replace Billy Packer after 27 years as the network?s lead college basketball analyst. Including his earlier years at NBC, Packer had done every Final Four since 1975, according to an Associated Press report.

?These are really good circumstances,? Packer told The Associated Press by phone. ?This decision was made with myself and CBS over a year ago. Their timing to announce it is their business. I have nothing to do with that. I was working on a series of 1-year contracts for several years. ? I did say there would be no mention during the season so as not to detract from the games and the guys involved.?

Kellogg, a game and studio analyst for CBS for 16 years, will be the man next to Jim Nantz on the 2009 Final Four broadcasts.