The 2022 Class of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame was announced Saturday afternoon and a pair of former Minnesota Gopher greats will be inducted in the same class. Former Minnesota Women’s star and current Gopher head coach Lindsay Whalen and former Gopher star and NBA All-Star Lou Hudson will both be inducted in the Class of 22 on September 10th in Springfield, Massachusetts. They are the third and four Gophers who will have thier named enshrined in Springfield after John Kundla and Kevin McHale.
Whalen is a Hutchinson, Minnesota native who came into the U as a freshman in the fall of 2000 she would shatter the record books.