Coach Gary Williams, who led the Terps to their first-ever national championship in 2002, announced his retirement in 2011 after 22 years in College Park.
Former Terrapins men’s basketball coach Gary Williams, who led the program to its lone national championship in 2002, is part of an eight-member class to be elected into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, the voting committee announced Tuesday morning.
Williams and the other honorees will be inducted in a ceremony on Nov. 23 in Kansas City before the College Basketball Experience tournament, which the Terps will participate in. The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame was established in 2006 and focuses on contributions to NCAA basketball.
The other 2014 honorees are: Zelmo Beaty (Prairie View A&M), Dale Brown (LSU), Howard Garfinkel (Five-Star Basketball Camp), Darrell Griffith (Louisville), Grant Hill (Duke), Shaquille O’Neal (LSU) and Glenn Wilkes (Stetson).
Williams is also nominated for the more well-known Naimsmith National Basketball Hall of Fame. Those inductees will be announced at the national championship game in early April.
A native of New Jersey, Williams played for the Terps in the 1960s before taking over the program in 1989 after stops at Boston College and Ohio State. Williams resurrected a Terps program crippled by NCAA sanctions in the early 1990s and led the team to the NCAA Tournament each year from 1994-2004.
Williams retired in 2011 and now works as a college basketball analyst for Comcast Sportsnet.
