Legendary former IU men’s basketball player Scott May was announced Wednesday as a member of the 2017 College Basketball Hall of Fame induction class.
May played at IU from 1972 to 1976 for former coach Bob Knight and was a member of the undefeated 1975-76 team that won the NCAA Championship and remains the last college basketball team to finish a season undefeated. May was named the National Player of the Year by multiple organizations that season and was a two-time consensus All-American in 1975 and 1976.
He finished his IU career with 1,593 career points, good for 13th-most in IU history. May went on to win a gold medal with the United States men’s basketball team in the 1976 Olympics and played seven seasons with three different teams in the NBA.
Reggie Minton, deputy executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches and chair of the Hall of Fame selection panel, said in a release that each inductee is deserving of a spot in the Hall of Fame for their own reasons.
“Collectively, this group broke barriers, won championships, set records, competed for their country, and left a lasting mark on the coaching profession,” Minton said in the release.
The 2017 Hall of Fame Induction will take place in Kansas City, Missouri, on Nov. 19, at the Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland. Some of the other members of the 2017 Hall of Fame class include Wake Forest’s Tim Duncan, Gonzaga’s John Stockton and former Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan.
May joins a list of former Hoosiers currently in the College Basketball Hall of Fame that includes Branch McCracken, 2006; Knight, 2006; Isiah Thomas, 2006; and the recently inducted Quinn Buckner, 2015.
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