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Former NCAA champions Christian Laettner of Duke and David Thompson of N.C. State will be inducted in to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, that voiced the eight-person 2010 category on Wednesday.
The initiation rite will be hold Nov. twenty-one in Kansas City, Mo. Also set for enshrinement as players are Sidney Wicks and Jerry West as players, Tex Winter and Davey Whitney as coaches, and Tom Jernstedt and Wayne Duke as contributors.
Laettner led Duke to 4 Final Fours and NCAA championships in 1991 and 1992. He perceived inhabitant player of the year honors in 1992 and ranks third in Duke story in career points (2,460) and rebounds (1,149).
He is the NCAA Tournament�s career scoring personality with 407 points and done one of the majority important shots in NCAA story in overtime in a 1992 informal last to lift Duke to a 104-103 win over Kentucky.
Thompson, who is from Boiling Springs, N.C., was one of the majority jaunty players in the story of the diversion and was declared inhabitant player of the year twice. He led N.C. State to the 1974 NCAA pretension and was comparison as ACC player of the year in 1973, 1974 and 1975.
He was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996.
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