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Legendary basketball broadcaster Dick Vitale, 82, says he's cancer-free

Talk about awesome, baby.

Dick Vitale, the face and voice of college basketball for decades, announced Tuesday that he is cancer free, more than four months after he was diagnosed with lymphoma.

Vitale, 82, the former head coach at University of Detroit and the Detroit Pistons before he went into broadcasting, shared the news on Twitter.

"My MARCH MADNESS starts with a W baby!" Vitale wrote on Twitter.

Vitale said he had scan and blood work Tuesday morning, and got a call from his doctors early in the afternoon saying that his latest scans came back clean.