1960 Edgerton champs, Grand Meadow girls' dynasty in '30s among first basketball hall honorees
Here are the first inductees into the Minnesota High School Basketball Hall of Fame (player graduation year in parentheses):
Boys' basketball
• 1960 Edgerton team
• Bob McDonald, Chisholm coach
• Jim McIntyre, Minneapolis Henry (1945)
• Ron Johnson, New Prague (1956)
• Mark Olberding, Melrose (1974)
• Kevin McHale, Hibbing (1976)
• Randy Breuer, Lake City (1979)
• Khalid El-Amin, Minneapolis North (1997)
Girls' basketball
• 1929-39 Grand Meadow teams
• Dorothy McIntyre, girls' sports advocate
• Myron Glass, Rochester Lourdes coach
• Faith Johnson Patterson, player at Marshall University (1980), coach at several schools
• Janet Karvonen-Montgomery, New York Mills (1980)
• Lindsay Whalen, Hutchinson (2000)
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Six players plus head coach Garrett Raboin and assistant coach Ben Gordon are from Minnesota. The tournament’s games will be televised starting Monday.