CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Longtime North Carolina radio play-by-play announcer Woody Durham is retiring after four decades.
Durham had been known as the “Voice of the Tar Heels” since September 1971. The school announced his retirement in a news release Tuesday night.
Durham had called more than 1,800 football and men’s basketball games. That included four NCAA men’s basketball championship victories — the 1982 and 1993 titles under Dean Smith as well as the 2005 and 2009 titles under Roy Williams.
His retirement follows a year in which the football team won the Music City Bowl despite playing the entire season in the shadow of an NCAA investigation. The men’s basketball team won an Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title before falling a win short of the Final Four.
