IU Athletics announced Wednesday that six new members will be inducted into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the 2017 class.
Men's basketball player Keith Smart (1987-88); football players Ernest Jones (1984-87) and Ken Kaczmarek (1965-67); track and field athlete Danielle Carruthers (2000-03); women's administrator Isabella Hutchison (1979-94); and golfer Don Padgett II (1969-70) comprise the six-member class.
The six members, who will bring the membership of the IU Athletics Hall of Fame to 225, will be inducted on Nov. 3 at the Hall of Fame dinner. The next day, they'll be recognized at halftime of the IU-Wisconsin football game.
Smart is best known for making the game-winning shot in the 1987 national championship game to give IU its fifth, and most recent, national title in men's basketball.
Kaczmarek was the first IU linebacker to be named an All-American and helped lead the Hoosiers to the 1968 Rose Bowl. Jones, a wide receiver, was named a first-team All-American in 1987 and set a program record with 1,265 receiving yards that season.
Carruthers was a part of three different Big Ten title-winning teams as a sprinter and hurdler in her time at IU. She was named an All-American 10 times while winning Big Ten Athlete of the Year honors twice. Padgett won the Big Ten men's golf championship in 1969 and led the Hoosiers in scoring average in 1968-69.
Hutchison was the women's athletic administrator and associate director of women's programs at IU for 25 years, and she was instrumental in developing women's athletics at IU, according to a release from IU Athletics.
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