The problem with running a Hall of Fame-related website is that many of the big ones we cover all have announcements within months of each other.  The backbone of what we do is list-related, so this results in a long push to revise what we already have; specifically, now with our Football and Basketball Lists.

At present, we have a minor update as we have completed the fourth ten of the 2024 Basketball List, which you can comment on and vote on:

The new 31 to 40:

31. Larry Nance
32. Sam Cassell
33. Horace Grant
34. Eddie Jones
35. Ron Boone
36. Gene Shue
37. Joakim Noah
38. Stephon Marbury
39. A.C. Green
40. Hersey Hawkins

Rankings are impacted annually based on your comments and votes.

Thank you all for your patience. We will soon unveil more changes to the football and basketball lists.

The College Basketball Hall of Fame has announced the Class of 2021, which will comprise of six former players and two coaches.

The new inductees are:

Len Bias, Maryland 1982-86:  One of the best athletes in Terrapin history, Bias was a two-time ACC Player of the Year, and was a Consensus First Team All-American in 1986.  Bias tragically died two days after he was taken second overall by the Boston Celtics from a cocaine overdose.

Rick Byrd, Coach, Lincoln Memorial 1983-86 & Belmont 1986-2019:  Byrd retired last year with a record of 805-402 and was named the NAIA Coach of the Year in 1995.  

David Greenwood, UCLA 1975-79:  Greenwood was twice a Consensus First Team All-American and was a two-time Pac-10 Player of the Year.  He would later win an NBA Championship in 1990 with the Detroit Pistons.

Hersey Hawkins, Bradley 1984-88:  In his senior year, Hawkins led the NCAA in scoring, and was named the AP Player of the Year, the UPI Player of the Year, and also won the Oscar Robertson Trophy and Adolph Rupp Trophy.  Hawkins was also a former Consensus First Team All-American and was a two-time MVC Player of the Year.  He would later be named an All-Star as a pro in 1991 when he was with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Jim Jackson, Ohio State 1989-92:  With the Buckeyes, Jackson was a two-time Consensus All-American, two-time Big Ten Player of the Year, and he was named the UPI College Player of the Year in 1992. Jackson went on to have a 15-year NBA career spent over 12 NBA teams.

Antawn Jamison, North Carolina 1995-98:  Jamison was the ACC Player of the Year in 1998 and was also a Consensus First Team All-American and Consensus National Player of the Year.  As a pro, he would be a two-time All-Star and a Sixth Man of the Year.

Tom Penders, Coach, Tufts 1971-74, Columbia 1974-78, Fordham 1978-86, Rhode Island 1986-88, Texas 1988-98, George Washington 1998-01 & Houston 2004-10:  Penders would have an overall record of 649-437 and was the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year in 1987.

Paul Pierce, Kansas 1995-98:  Pierce was a Consensus First Team All-American in 1998, and he would later go to ten All-Star Games in the NBA, as well as winning an NBA Championship with Boston in 2008.

The 2021 ceremony is tentatively scheduled for next November.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the newest members of the College Basketball Hall of Fame.

An All-Star in 1991 with Philadelphia, Hawkins joined the SuperSonics after being traded from the Charlotte Hornets in 1995.  Hawkins would play in Seattle for four years and would average 15.6 Points per Game in his first year as a Sonic, which would also see him help the team reach the NBA Finals.

Coming out of Bradley, Hersey Hawkins had a solid three year run (over two stints) with Charlotte, where he would put together a solid 11.4 Points per Game run. That may have been a lower statistically than he was with the Philadelphia 76ers years before, but his run in Eastern Pennsylvania helped make him a draw in Carolina.

Once again, we have another player who had a solid pro career that is overshadowed by a spectacular college career.  Hersey Hawkins is only one of six players to score more than 6,000 career points in Division One.  Hawkins and Chet Walker are easily the two best players ever to come from Bradley University; and the Braves are one of the best programs ever that nobody remembers.  This might be hurting him. He may be sadly best remembered for an injury that kept him out of most of the 1988 Olympic Games and some say cost the team a gold due to their lack of perimeter shooting.  This of course led to the Dream Team being created so he has got that going for him.