The legend of Gary Blair grew even larger on Saturday as the retired Aggie coach was rewarded for a career of service to the game with a call to join the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Blair was selected to join the giants and legends of hoops after an illustrious five decades as a head coach at the high school and collegiate levels and a staunch advocate of the women's game.
Gary Blair began his coaching career at Dallas’s South Oak Cliff High School in 1973. After three state titles in four years (1977, 1978, 1980), Blair jumped to the collegiate ranks in 1980 at burgeoning women's powerhouse Louisiana Tech as an assistant under legendary head coaches Sonja Hogg and Leon Barmore.