Three finalists named to Basketball Hall of Fame

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Former Wayland Baptist coach Harley Redin is one of three finalists for election to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

The three were proposed by the Women’s Screening Committee, which considered a dozen nominees, officials announced Wednesday. Barmore is a first-time finalist. Rush and Redin had been proposed previously.

Redin, 83, amassed a 431-66 record, two undefeated seasons, six AAU National Championships and a 76-game winning streak during the 18 years he coached the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens in Plainview, Texas, from 1955-1973.

The team, with a flashy warmup drill it learned from the Harlem Globetrotters, was initially sponsored by Harvest Queen Mill and Elevator and then by a local air service owner, who flew them to their games.

Cathy Rush, 55, coached for just seven years, but led tiny Immaculata College outside Philadelphia to three consecutive national collegiate titles, including the first for women in 1972, while amassing a 149-15 record.

She also took her team to six consecutive Final Fours. Her Immaculata squads were the first women’s college team to play on national television in 1975 and at Madison Square Garden and the first to play overseas.