UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, February 6, 1996
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Six stars shoot their way into the Basketball Hall of Fame
Tarkanian snubbed despite holding the best winning record of any college coach
Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — George Gervin and David Thompson, two of the game's most prolific scorers, were elected yesterday to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
But Jerry Tarkanian, who has the best winning percentage of any college coach, fell short. He didn't get the 18 votes needed from the Honors Committee.
Also elected were Gail Goodrich
Nancy Lieberman-Cline, George
Yardley and the late Kresimir Cosic.
Tarkanian's 83-percent success rate in 25 years at Long Beach State, UNLV and now Fresno State is rivaled only by his run-ins with the NCAA about recruiting and other alleged violations.
Yardley, whose nickname was "The Bird," became the first player in NBA history to score more than 2,000 points in a season in 1957. He scored 2,001 for the Pistons.
Twenty years later, Gervin, playing for the San Antonio Spurs, scored more than 2,000 points in six consecutive seasons.
On April 9, 1978, the battle for the league scoring title came down to Gervin and Thompson. On the last day of the season, Thompson, of the Denver Nuggets, put up 73 points to take the lead. But Gervin scored 63 in a night game to take the first of his four NBA scoring titles.
"This is the ultimate in athletics," Gervin said. "It's truly an honor to be going in with David. We had quite a few battles."
Thompson and Gervin also had problems off the court.
Gervin, who averaged 26.2 points during his 14 seasons in the ABA and NBA, turned pro after losing his college scholarship for slugging an opponent in an NCAA tournament game. Later, while with the Spurs, he entered a drug rehabilitation program.
"Overcoming that addiction is the Hall of Fame in itself." Gervin said.
The acrobatic Thompson, who led North Carolina State against UCLA and Bill Walton on the way to the 1974 NCAA championship, also fell prey to cocaine as a pro. At the height of his drug problems, he spent time at a prison camp for beating his wife.
Both now run programs aimed at helping disadvantaged youngsters, Gervin in San Antonio and Thompson in North Carolina.
Goodrich led UCLA to its first titles under coach John Wooden in 1964 and 1965, then he went on to star with the Los Angeles Lakers.
"It's humbling," Goodrich said of his election. "I reflect back when I was a kid starting to play ... the hours and hours of practice and the fun."
Goodrich said he would ask Wooden to be a presenter at induction ceremonies May 6.
"Coach Wooden saw something in me as a little high school kid," Goodrich said. "He had confidence that if this little kid grows, he can play ... others didn't think so."
Lieberman-Cline, an Olympic silver medal winner at age 17, led Old Dominion's women's team to two national championships. She then became the first woman to play in a men's professional league with the Springfield Fame of the United States Basketball League.
She saw her election as the recognition of a new, more bruising style of women's basketball that is closer to the men's game. She said she had learned her approach to the game in the schoolwards of New York.
"Growing up in New York, it was a style that I knew, being physical and aggressive," she said.
Cosic, a 6-foot-11 center from Croatia, starred for Brigham Young in the early 1970s before returning to Europe. He won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics with the former Yugoslavian national team.
When civil war erupted in his country, he quit his basketball career and served in Washington as a deputy ambassador to the United States. He died of cancer last May 25. He was 46.
Also nominated as players were Dick Barnett, Roger Brown, Jo Joe White, Dennis Johnson, Larry Costello, Artis Glimore, Jamaal Wilkes and Arnie Risen.
Also nominated as coaches were Don Haskins of Texas-El Paso, Guy Lewis of Houston, Tex Winter, who coached in both the pro leagues and college, and Antonio Dias-Miguel, who guided Spain's national team for 27 years.
Carol Eckman, who started the first women's national collegiate tournament in 1969, was nominated as a contributor.
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