College Basketball’s Hall of Fame will welcome seven new inductees this year
The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame will welcome in a seven-man group headlined by NBA greats Tim Duncan and John Stockton as well as former Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan. Winston Salem-State’s Cleo Hill, Indiana’s Scott May, Purdue’s Rick Mount, Creighton’s Paul Silas and Duke’s Jay Williams will join Duncan, Stockton and Ryan in the class.
Before putting together long-lasting NBA careers, both Duncan and Stockton starred at the college level for Wake Forest and Gonzaga, respectively. Duncan averaged 16.5 points, 12.3 rebounds and 3.8 blocks per game during his four-year career with the Demon Deacons. He won several National Player of the Year awards as a senior. Stockton, meanwhile, averaged 12.5 points and 5.2 assists per game in four years with the Bulldogs. He is the school’s all-time leader in steals and ranks fourth in assists.
Ryan won four Division III national championships at Wisconsin-Plateville before moving to Milwaukee and eventually Wisconsin. With the Badgers, he made 14-straight NCAA tournaments and took the team to a pair of Final Fours, including the national title game in 2015.
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Williams, meanwhile, helped lead the Blue Devils to a national title in 2001 before a motorcycle accident derailed his professional career. Hill averaged more than 25 points per game at Winston Salem-State and was the first player from a historically black college to be drafted in the first round. May played on the Indiana team that went undefeated in 1975-76, Mount is Purdue’s all-time leading scorer and Silas averaged better than 20 points per game for the Blue Jays.
They will be inducted on Nov. 19 later this year in a ceremony in Kansas City, MO.