Nearly 50 former Colorado State basketball players, including all-time scoring and rebounding leader Pat Durham and ex-coach Boyd Grant, will be honored at halftime Saturday during the Rams game against San Diego State (7 p.m.). Grant led the Rams to back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths in 1989 and 1990.
Other notables expected to attend: Bob Caton, Eric Friehauf, Eddie Hughes, Hal Kinard, Kay McFarland, Aki Palmer, Trent Shippen and Joel Tribelhorn.
Caton was a leader on the 1969 Elite Eight team. Friehauf helped the Rams to 76 wins from 1987-90. Hughes is the team’s seventh all-time leading scorer. Shippen and Tribelhorn were guards on the 1989 team that won the Western Athletic Conference and beat Florida in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
The honorees will be available for a meet-and-greet after the game. Saturday’s game is also a Kids’ Night game, with children’s tickets at $4 and postgame free-throw shooting on the court.
14ers add two players.
The Colorado 14ers of the NBA Development League signed guard Vernon Hamilton and forward Damien Lolar to bring its roster to 10 players, the team said.
Lolar, a 6-foot-4 swingman who played in seven games for the 14ers this season, played 29 minutes in Tuesday night’s 114-110 win over the Erie Bayhawks at the Broomfield Event Center, scoring 11 points with three rebounds and three assists.
Hamilton, a 6-footer who has played professionally in Turkey and Latvia, played 6:42 with no points and two rebounds. Trey Gilder led Colorado with 33 points. Eddie Gill added 24 points.
Bears wrestler nets honor.
The Western Wrestling Conference selected Northern Colorado’s 184-pounder Ryan Johnson (Doherty High School) as the wrestler of the week after he won two matches, including a pin in overtime that gave the Bears a win over North Dakota State.
UNC needed at least a major decision from Johnson, and he responded with his second pin of the season.
Johnson, a senior captain, is 14-15 this season and 4-10 in dual meets.
