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List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors players who have shown exceptional skill at basketball, all-time great coaches, referees, and other major contributors to the sport. Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, the Basketball Hall of Fame is named after James Naismith, who invented the sport in 1891; he was inducted into the Hall as a contributor in 1959.[1] The Coach category has existed since the beginning of the Hall of Fame. For a person to be inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach, they must either be "fully retired for five years" or, if they are still active, "have coached as either a fulltime assistant or head coach on the high school and/or college and/or professional level" for 25 years.[2]

John Wooden, inducted as player in 1960 and as a coach in 1973, the FIRST person so inducted.

As part of the inaugural class of 1959, three coaches were inducted (Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, Henry Clifford Carlson and Walter E. Meanwell); in total, 100 individuals have been inducted into the Hall of Fame as coaches.

Six coaching inductees were associated with teams that were inducted to the Hall of Fame as units. Don Haskins, inducted in 1997, was the coach of the 1966 Texas Western basketball team, which was inducted in 2007. Dutch Lonborg, inducted in 1973, was manager of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team that was inducted in 2010. Three coaching inductees were members of the staff for the 1992 U.S. Olympic team that was also inducted in 2010—head coach Chuck Daly (1994) and assistants Lenny Wilkens (1998) and Mike Krzyzewski (2001). Cathy Rush (2008) was the head coach of the Immaculata College women's team of 1972–1974 that was inducted in 2014.[3]

Ten of the inducted coaches were born outside the United States: Cesare Rubini, Aleksandr J. Gomelsky, Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Aleksandar "Aza" Nikolić, Geno Auriemma, Alessandro "Sandro" Gamba, Mirko Novosel, Pedro Ferrándiz, Lidia Alexeeva, and Lindsay Gaze. Ten of the inducted coaches are women: L. Margaret Wade, Jody Conradt, Pat Head Summitt, Sandra Kay Yow, Sue Gunter, Rush, C. Vivian Stringer, Tara VanDerveer, Alexeeva, and Sylvia Hatchell. Five coaches have also been inducted as players: John Wooden, Bill Sharman, Wilkens, Tom Heinsohn, and Bill Russell. One of the more recent inductees in this category was John McLendon, who was inducted as a head coach in 2016. McLendon had also been inducted as a contributor in 1979, making him the first individual ever to be inducted as both a coach and contributor.[4]

Unlike recent years (such as 2015), in which individuals directly elected by special Hall committees were announced separately from the rest of the class,[5][6] all 2016 inductees were announced at the same event. Specifically, the announcement of the class of 2016 was made on April 4 during the festivities surrounding the 2016 NCAA Men's Final Four in Houston.[4]

Coaches

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Clifford Carlson, inducted in 1959
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Walter Meanwell, inducted in 1959
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Red Auerbach, inducted in 1969
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Dean Smith, inducted in 1983
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Bob Knight, inducted in 1991
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Lou Carnesecca, inducted in 1992
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Chuck Daly, inducted in 1994
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Jody Conradt, inducted in 1998
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Pat Summitt, inducted in 2000
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Mike Krzyzewski, inducted in 2001
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Geno Auriemma, inducted in 2006
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Van Chancellor, inducted in 2007
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Phil Jackson, inducted in 2007
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Pat Riley, inducted in 2008
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C. Vivian Stringer, inducted in 2009
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Notes

  • a According to individuals' pages on the official website

References

General – Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame inductees

  • "Hall of Famers". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  • "Basketball Hall of Fame Inductees". basketball-reference.com. Retrieved August 17, 2009.

General – Other groups of coaches

  • 10 Greatest Euroleague Coaches – "Euroleague History: 50 Years". Euroleague.net. Euroleague Properties NV. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
  • Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductees – "WBHOF Inductees". Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 5, 2011.

Specific

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  7. "Forrest C. "Phog" Allen". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  8. "Henry Clifford Carlson". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  9. "Walter E. Meanwell". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  10. "Ernest A. Blood". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  11. "Frank W. Keaney". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  12. "Ward L. Lambert". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  13. "George E. Keogan". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  14. "Leonard D. Sachs". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  15. "Kenneth D. "Ken" Loeffler". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  16. "Howard A. Hobson". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  17. "Everett S. Dean". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  18. "Howard G. Cann". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  19. "Amory T. Gill". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  20. "Alvin F. Julian". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  21. "Arnold J. "Red" Auerbach". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 7, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  22. "Henry P. "Hank" Iba". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  23. "Adolph F. Rupp". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on September 14, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  24. "Bernard L. "Ben" Carnevale". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  25. "Edgar A. "Ed" Diddle". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  26. "Bruce Drake". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  27. "Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  28. "John R. Wooden". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  29. "Harry Litwack". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  30. "Frank J. McGuire". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on September 3, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  31. "Justin M. "Sam" Barry". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  32. "Edgar S. "Ed" Hickey". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  33. "Raymond J. "Ray" Meyer". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  34. "Everett F. Shelton". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  35. "Arad A. McCutchan". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  36. "Everett N. Case". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  37. "Clarence E. Gaines". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  38. "Dean E. Smith". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  39. "James H. "Jack" Gardner". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  40. "W. Harold Anderson". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  41. "Marv K. Harshman". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  42. "L. Margaret Wade". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  43. "William "Red" Holzman". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  44. "Fred R. Taylor". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  45. "Stanley H. "Stan" Watts". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  46. "Ralph H. Miller". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  47. "Robert M. "Bob" Knight". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  48. "Louis P. "Lou" Carnesecca". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  49. "Alfred J. "Al" McGuire". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  50. "John T. "Jack" Ramsay". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 7, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  51. "Phillip D. "Phil" Woolpert". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  52. "Denzil E. "Denny" Crum". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  53. "Charles J. "Chuck" Daly". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  54. "Cesare Rubini". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  55. "Aleksandr J. Gomelsky". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  56. Gomelsky was born in what was then the  Soviet Union.
  57. "John A. Kundla". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  58. "Peter J. "Pete" Carril". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 29, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  59. "Antonio Díaz-Miguel". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  60. "Donald L. "Don" Haskins". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  61. "Jody Conradt". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  62. "Alexander M. "Alex" Hannum". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  63. "Aleksandar "Aza" Nikolic". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  64. Nikolić was a Bosnian Serb born in Sarajevo, then in the  Kingdom of Yugoslavia and now in  Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  65. "Leonard R. "Lenny" Wilkens". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  66. "Billie J. Moore". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  67. "John R. Thompson". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  68. "Pat Head Summitt". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  69. "Morgan B. Wootten". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  70. "John Chaney". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  71. "Michael "Mike" Krzyzewski". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  72. "Larry Brown". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  73. "Robert "Lute" Olson". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  74. "Sandra Kay Yow". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  75. "Leon Barmore". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  76. "Bill Sharman". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  77. "Jim Boeheim". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  78. "Jim Calhoun". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  79. "Sue Gunter". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  80. "Geno Auriemma". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
  81. Auriemma was born in  Italy, but emigrated to the U.S. with his family at age 7. Although he has lived in the U.S. ever since, he did not become a U.S. citizen until 1994.
  82. "Alessandro "Sandro" Gamba". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  83. "Van Chancellor". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 5, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  84. "Pedro Ferrándiz". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 7, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  85. "Phil Jackson". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 7, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  86. "Mirko Novosel". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  87. Novosel was born in what was then the  Kingdom of Yugoslavia
  88. "Roy Williams". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
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  90. "Pat Riley". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  91. "Cathy Rush". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  92. "Jerry Sloan". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on January 17, 2010. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
  93. "C. Vivian Stringer". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on September 24, 2009. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
  94. "Robert "Bob" Hurley, Sr". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on February 15, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  95. "Herb Magee". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  96. "Tara VanDerveer". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  97. "Lidia Alexeeva". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2012.
  98. Alexeeva was born in what was then the  Soviet Union.
  99. "Don Nelson". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2012.
  100. "Sylvia Hatchell". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  101. "Guy Lewis". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on January 13, 2014. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  102. "Rick Pitino". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on December 29, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  103. "Jerry Tarkanian". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on January 13, 2014. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  104. "Bobby "Slick" Leonard". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  105. "Nolan Richardson". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  106. "Gary Williams". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  107. "John Calipari". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on October 2, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  108. "Lindsay Gaze". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  109. "Tom Heinsohn". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2015.


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