Joining the 83-year-old Donoher in the 2015 Hall of Fame class are former players Quinn Buckner of Indiana, John Havlicek of Ohio State, Kansas State’s Rolando Blackman, Long Beach State’s Ed Ratlef and North Carolina’s Charlie Scott, as well as former coaches C. Felton “Zip” Gayles from Langston and Lou Henson, who coached at Hardin Simmons. New Mexico State and Illinois.
Donoher is one of 12 Hall of Famers whose entire college coaching careers were spent at their alma maters. The other 11 are Jim Boeheim (Syracuse), Howard Cann (NYU), Doc Carlson (Pitt), Lou Carnesecca (St. John’s), Bruce Drake (Oklahoma), Slats Gill (Oregon State), Guy Lewis (Houston), Arad McCutchan (Evansville), Jack Ramsay (Saint Joseph’s), Stan Watts (BYU) and Fred Taylor (Ohio State).