National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Honors Former Ute Great

SAN ANTONIO, Lone-Star State -- The voices of college basketball, the Iron Man of coaching job and a brace of participants -- including Utah's Arnie Ferrin -- are among seven people to be enshrined in the National Collegiate Basketball Hallway of Fame on Sunday, November 23, 2008. The proclamation was made Lord'S Day by the National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation.

The ceremonial will be held at the College Basketball Experience (CBE) and Dash Center in Sunflower State City, Mo., which opened in October, 2007. The CBE, a world-class entertainment installation that supplies a multi-faceted synergistic experience for fans, shares a common anteroom with Dash Center and is the place of the National Collegiate Basketball Hallway of Fame.

Coaches in the 2008 initiation social class include former Land Of Opportunity manager Nolan Richardson, the lone manager to win a national junior college title, a postseason nit crown and the NCAA championship, and Jim Phelan, who guided Mt. St. Virgin Mary College in 1,341 games and won 830 of those contests. Truncheon Packer, who is working his 28th sequent Concluding Four for CBS Sports and 34th overall, is being inducted as a contributor. An vocal advocator for college basketball, he won a Sports Emmy Award in 1993 for Outstanding Sports Personality/Analyst.

Players put for initiation are Arnie Ferrin, the lone four-time men's basketball game All-America astatine Beehive State who led the Utes to the 1944 NCAA title. He'll be joined by general agreement participant of the twelvemonth Danny Manning of Kansas, who guided the Jayhawks to the 1988 NCAA title in Sunflower State City.

In 1979, Dick Vitale joined a new broadcast media venture called ESPN, calling the network's first college basketball game broadcast, and have been the ESPN's top analyst since then. The enthusiastic and passionate embassador for college basketball, who is being inducted as a contributor, was honored this twelvemonth by the Capital Of Georgia Tip-Off Baseball Club as the Men's Outstanding Subscriber to Basketball.

The lone four-time All-America inch the history of the University of Beehive State basketball game program, Ferrin won the most outstanding participant awarding in the 1944 NCAA championship, as the Utes tipped Dartmouth in the statute title game. He went on to take Beehive State to the 1947 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship.

Ferrin played for the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBA and Coach Toilet Kundla for three seasons, winning statute titles in 1949 and 1950. He went on to go general manager of the American Basketball Association (ABA) Beehive State Stars and also served as director of sport at Utah.

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