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April 6, 2024
1st HBCU team to win national championship receives their flowers. The 1957 TN A&I Tigers
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April 6, 2024
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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame :: NAISMITH BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES 13 INDUCTEES FOR THE CLASS OF 2024
GLENDALE, ARIZ. – The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced the 13 inductees in the Class of 2024 to be celebrated during this year’s Enshrinement festivities on August 16-17. The Class Announcement was made in Glendale, Ariz., the site of the 2024 NCAA Men’s Final Four, and was televised...
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dikk BARNETT [Player] –Barnett first gained prominence at Tennessee A&I University, where he led the Tigers to three straight NAIA national championships (1957-59), the first historically black school to claim a men’s basketball title. The “Skull” played 14 NBA seasons with the Syracuse Nationals (1959-61), Los Angeles Lakers (1962-65) and New York Knicks (1965-73), winning a pair of titles in the Big Apple (1970, ‘73) and making his lone All-Star team in 1968. The Knicks retired his No. 12, and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame honored his 1957–59 Tigers squad in 2019.