Bob Picozzi (born June 4, 1951) is a television and radio announcer who was employed by

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and

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as a play-by-play announcer for college football and basketball.

Biography

Picozzi was born in

Summit, New Jersey Summit is a city in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The city is located on a ridge in northern-central New Jersey, within the Raritan Valley and Rahway Valley regions in the New York metropolitan area. At the 2010 United State ...

, and graduated from

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. He graduated in 1968 from Notre Dame High School (

Lawrenceville, New Jersey Lawrenceville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Lawrence Township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.

) and was inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame and the

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(Seton Hall University) Hall of Fame. In 1978, Picozzi began a 19-year stint at

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as sports director. He was the TV play-by-play voice of UConn women's basketball from 1999-2012. He also called

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football for the Atlantic 10 Network and

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football for

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. Picozzi is a four-time winner of the Connecticut Sportscaster of the Year award and received one New England Regional Emmy Award. From 1998 to 2016, he was an ''

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'' anchor and anchored 62,411 updates. Picozzi began calling college football and basketball for ESPN in 1997 and college basketball for Fox Sports in 2017.

Career timeline

*2017–2018

college basketball play-by-play announcer *1997–2017

college basketball and football play-by-play announcer *1998–2016

anchor *1999–2012

Connecticut Huskies women's basketball The UConn Huskies women's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, in NCAA Division I women's basketball competition. They completed a seven-season tenure in the America ...

TV play-by-play voice *2007-2011

Colonial Athletic Association The Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA's NCAA Division I, Division I whose full members are located in East Coast ...

football tv play-by-play *1997-2006 (Atlantic 10 Network)

football TV play-by-play *1978–1997

sports director *1975-1978 (Fairfield Basketball Radio Network)

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radio play-by-play *1973-1975 WNHC

Yale Bulldogs men's basketball The Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, competing in the Ivy League. The team plays home games in the John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The current head coach is James ...

radio play-by-play *1969-1972

Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball The Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball program is the NCAA Division I intercollegiate men's basketball program of Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. The team competes in the Big East Conference and plays their home games in the P ...

radio play-by-play

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Picozzi, Bob 1951 births Living people American radio personalities American sports announcers College basketball announcers in the United States College football announcers Regional Emmy Award winners Hartford Whalers announcers Notre Dame High School (New Jersey) alumni People from Summit, New Jersey Seton Hall University alumni Women's college basketball announcers in the United States