Jim Nantz's Crew Sure Loves North Carolina and Duke

Jim Nantz and either Clark Kellogg or Billy Packer love North Carolina and Duke. Over the past several years, Nantz's crew has done more of those two program's games than any other. In fact, Jim Nantz has called 11 of the last 13 NCAA Tournament games that North Carolina has played.

Let's go through the history:

2010: Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg followed Duke in the first and second weekends.

2009: Nantz and Kellogg had North Carolina for the first two weekends and, obviously, the Final Four.

2008: Nantz and Billy Packer had North Carolina for the first weekend, but not for the Regionals. They instead went to the Midwest to follow Memphis/Mich State/Stanford/Texas. They did hook back up with Carolina in the Final Four.

2007: For some weird reason, Nantz and Packer started out in Chicago (Kansas/Kentucky were there) and covered neither UNC or Duke. They then moved over to East Rutherford for the Tar Heels in those two games.

2006: Nantz and Packer did no UNC or Duke games. They went from Philadelphia to Minneapolis ... basically following Villanova.

2005: Nantz and Packer got the greatest gig ever! In the first two rounds, they got BOTH North Carolina and Duke. The games were held in Charlotte and they got 'em both! Nantz and Packer then followed Duke to the Regionals, where the Devils were upset by Michigan State in the Sweet 16. Of course, Nantz and Packer were at the Final Four when UNC cut down the nets.

2004: Here is one that I don't get. Nantz and Packer were in Denver to see a 6th-seeded North Carolina squad that was making its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2001. They then went to East Rutherford where there was no Heels or Devils. They did hook up with Duke in the Final Four.

2003-No North Carolina, but Nantz/Packer did get a Duke game in the West Regional semifinals.

That means 13 of their last 20 assignments were in a site that housed either North Carolina or Duke (and one time with BOTH Carolina and Duke). Of the seven sites they didn't see one of those teams, two of them were Final Fours where neither team made it that far.