Rutgers coach Stringer enshrined in Hall of Fame

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — C. Vivian Stringer, the first coach to lead three different teams to the Final Four, has been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.

Stringer has won 825 games in 39 seasons. She took Rutgers to the women's national championship game in 2007 and also led the Scarlet Knights to the 2000 national semifinals.

She made her first Final Four in 1982 with Cheney State and got back there again in 1993 with Iowa. Stringer thanked her players — "basketball daughters" — and said a coal miner's daughter enshrined in the Hall was "the most unusual, unexpected thing in the world."

Michael Jordan, David Robinson, John Stockton and Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan also were part of Friday's class.