Two-time All-America basketball player Bob Boozer was among eight individuals announced Tuesday to the 11th class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
Boozer, the only two-time consensus All-American in Kansas State history, is joined in the 2016 Hall of Fame induction class by fellow players Mark Aguirre (DePaul), Doug Collins (Illinois State), Lionel Simmons (La Salle), Jamaal Wilkes (UCLA) and Dominique Wilkins (Georgia).Coaches Hugh Durham (Florida State/Georgia/Jacksonville) and Mike Montgomery (Montana/Stanford/California) also made the HoF class.
Already a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame for his efforts on the record-setting 1960 U.S. Olympic team, Boozer is the third person with K-State ties to be named to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, including the second men’s basketball player, following his coach Tex Winter (2010) and Rolando Blackman (2015).