Legendary Alcorn State Basketball Coach Dave Whitney Elected to College Basketball Hall of Fame
Dave Whitney, the legendary basketball coach at Alcorn State University who amassed more than 500 career victories in 31 years, has been named to the College Basketball Hall of Fame.
He first coached the Braves from 1969-88, then returned from 1996-2002. Whitney’s Alcorn teams won 495 games and 12 Southwestern Athletic Conference titles.
Two of Whitney’s biggest victories came in 1979, when the Braves beat Mississippi State at Starkville in a National Invitation Tournament game, and then in 1980, when Alcorn beat South Alabama 70-62 to become the first team from a historically black university to win an NCAA Tournament game.
Whitney joins John Cheaney, Clarence Gaines, and John McClendon as coaches in the Hall with ties to HBCUs.
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Good article. Just be careful. The Clarion Ledger said David Thomas of North Carolina State was also selected. I’m sure they meant to say “David Thompson.”