Completed Event: Men's Basketball versus No. 9-Seed Cincinnati (1st Round) on March 10, 2026 , Loss , 66, to, 73
Final Score
Men's Basketball
66
vs No. 9-Seed Cincinnati (1st Round)
73
The University of Utah Athletics
Ferrin Named to Hall of Fame
4/7/2008 12:00 AM | Men's Basketball
April 7, 2008
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- The voices of college basketball, the Iron Man of coaching and a pair of players -- including Utah's Arnie Ferrin -- are among seven people to be enshrined in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday, November 23, 2008. The announcement was made Sunday by the National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation.
The ceremony will be held at the College Basketball Experience (CBE) and Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., which opened in October, 2007. The CBE, a world-class entertainment facility that provides a multi-faceted interactive experience for fans, shares a common lobby with Sprint Center and is the home of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
Coaches in the 2008 induction class include former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson, the only coach to win a national junior college title, a postseason NIT crown and the NCAA championship, and Jim Phelan, who guided Mt. St. Mary College in 1,341 games and won 830 of those contests. Billy Packer, who is working his 28th consecutive Final Four for CBS Sports and 34th overall, is being inducted as a contributor. An outspoken advocate for college basketball, he won a Sports Emmy Award in 1993 for Outstanding Sports Personality/Analyst.
Players set for induction are Arnie Ferrin, the only four-time men's basketball All-America at Utah who led the Utes to the 1944 NCAA title. He'll be joined by consensus player of the year Danny Manning of Kansas, who guided the Jayhawks to the 1988 NCAA championship in Kansas City.
In 1979, Dick Vitale joined a new broadcasting venture called ESPN, calling the network's first college basketball broadcast, and has been the ESPN's top analyst since then. The enthusiastic and passionate ambassador for college basketball, who is being inducted as a contributor, was honored this year by the Atlanta Tip-Off Club as the Men's Outstanding Contributor to Basketball.
The only four-time All-America in the history of the University of Utah basketball program, Ferrin won the most outstanding player award in the 1944 NCAA championship, as the Utes tipped Dartmouth in the title game. He went on to lead Utah to the 1947 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship.
Ferrin played for the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBA and Coach John Kundla for three seasons, winning titles in 1949 and 1950. He went on to become general manager of the American Basketball Association (ABA) Utah Stars and also served as director of athletics at Utah.
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