Longtime Alcorn State basketball coach Davey Whitney will be enshrined into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Whitney, 80, posted a 550-337 record in 31 years as head coach, including two stops at Alcorn State. He guided the Braves to the 1979 National Invitation Tournament, where his team defeated Mississippi State, and in 1980 he led Alcorn to the NCAA Tournament and a victory over South Alabama to become the first historically black university to win a tournament game.

His Alcorn teams won 495 games and 12 Southwestern Athletic Conference championships.

The ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 21 in Kansas City, Mo.

Other inductees are:

• Duke University player Christian Laettner

• UCLA player Sidney Wicks

• Longtime coach Tex Winter

• NCAA executive vice president Tom Jernstadt

• Wayne Duke, former commissioner of the Big 8 and Big Ten conferences