Honor Roll
Hubie Brown was a standout basketball and baseball player at Niagara. During his collegiate basketball career, his team went 74-39 overall and recorded a 14-2 record while playing as a ranked team. The Purple Eagles also went to three straight NIT Tournaments. Brown won the 1975 ABA Championship as the head coach of the Kentucky Colonels. He was a two-time NBA Coach of the Year with the Atlanta Hawks in 1978 and the Memphis Grizzles in 2004. His work as a television commentator earned Brown two Sports Emmy Award nominations as well as the Basketball Hall of Fame Curt Gowdy Electronic Media Award. In 2005, Brown was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.