PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Big 5 has announced its 2019 Hall of Fame Class, and for University of Pennsylvania men's basketball fans the induction will be twice as nice as the Big 5 will induct former standout player Mark Zoller as well as the program's winningest coach, Fran Dunphy.
 
Zoller, Dunphy and the rest of the Hall of Fame class will be inducted at the annual awards banquet, which will take place at The Palestra on Monday, April 15 at 6 PM. In all, two coaches, one administrator and four standout players will be inducted including Jim Foster (Saint Joseph's WBB coach), Bill Bradshaw (La Salle/Temple AD), Kamesha Hairston (Temple WBB), Mike Nardi (Villanova MBB), and Steve Smith (La Salle MBB). This event is open to the public, tickets are $15 ahead of time (click here to buy tickets online) or $20 at the door that night.
 
A four-year starter at Penn from 2004-07, Zoller helped lead Penn to the Ivy League title in each of his final three seasons. The 10th all-time leading scorer in Quaker history with 1,429 points, he was a two-time first-team All-Ivy selection while earning first-team All-Big 5 honors as a senior and second team as a junior. Three times Zoller led the Quakers in rebounding, and as a senior he led Penn and the Ivy League in scoring with 565 points—eighth on the Quakers' single-season list—including 96 points in Big 5 play (24.0 ppg). That included the winning points in a two-point win over Temple and 28 in a one-point victory over La Salle. Zoller still ranks sixth on Penn's all-time list in career steals (141), seventh in career field goals made (555), and ninth in career rebounds (750).
 
The all-time winningest coach in Big 5 history, Dunphy recorded 580 victories over his 30-year career, spending 17 seasons at Penn before heading to North Philly to guide Temple for the last 13 seasons. At Penn, Dunphy won more games than any other coach in program history (310), and he boasted a 190-48 record against Ivy League competition including five undefeated campaigns and the longest winning streak in Ivy history (48 games from 1992-96). A standout player at La Salle (1967-70), Dunphy is one of only six coaches with more than 200 wins at two different schools while taking each to eight or more NCAA Tournaments. The only person to serve as head coach at two Big 5 schools, Dunphy has been named Big 5 Coach of the Year seven times (four at Temple, three at Penn). Dunphy guided his teams to 13 regular-season conference titles—a staggering 10 of them at Penn from 1992-93 to 2005-06—and three conference tournament championships, and his 17 trips to the NCAA Tournament ties Temple Hall of Fame coach John Chaney for the most by a Big 5 coach.
 
About the Other Inductees
Inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013, Foster compiled a 248-126 overall record at Saint Joseph's, for the second most wins in school history. He led the Hawks to seven postseason appearances (1 AIAW, 6 NCAA) and six Big 5 titles during his 13-year tenure.  Twice named the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year ('84-85, '89-90), he coached one All-American, one two-time A-10 Player of the Year, 19 All-Atlantic 10 honorees, 22 All-Big 5 honorees and four Big 5 Players of the Year in his time at SJU.  He also coached at Vanderbilt, Ohio State and Chattanooga, guiding those programs to NCAA Tournament berths. Foster retired following the 2017-18 season at Chattanooga and ended his career with 903 wins, which ranks seventh on the all-time women's basketball coaching list.
 
The only person to serve as Athletic Director at two Big 5 schools, Bradshaw is completing his second stint at La Salle after spending 11 years as the top athletics administrator at Temple (2002-13). He also served as the AD at DePaul for 16 years (1986-02), overseeing 13 men's and women's basketball NCAA appearances. A 1969 graduate of La Salle, Bradshaw's first tenure at his alma mater saw the men's basketball team advance to three NCAA Tournaments and the women two.  At Temple, he engineered the school's move to the American Athletic Conference while also luring Dunphy away from Penn to replace Chaney. The Owls advanced to 14 men's and women's NCAA Tournaments on his watch. His second stint at La Salle was highlighted by the hosting of the NCAA Regionals in 2016, the hiring of Ashley Howard and Mountain MacGillivray as men's and women's basketball coaches, and signing the athletic department's first all-encompassing apparel deal with Under Armour.
 
One of the top players in Temple women's basketball history, Hairston earned Atlantic 10 Conference and Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Year honors during her senior season (2006-07). The 2007 First Round WNBA draft pick led the A10 and ranked 17th nationally in scoring with 18.9 points per game in earning honorable mention All-America honors.  The three-time all-Big 5 selection (2x First Team, 1 Second Team) led the Owls to three Philadelphia Big 5 Championships while scoring 1,573 career points, which, at the time, ranked fourth on the school's all-time scoring list.  She also ranked third all-time for the Owls in steals (234) and sixth in rebounds (757).
 
A four-year starter and playmaker, Nardi helped lead Villanova to 92 wins during his career, including trips to the 2005 NCAA Sweet 16 and the 2006 NCAA Elite Eight. Now an assistant coach with the Wildcats, Nardi started all 35 games of his freshman season in 2003-04, earning BIG EAST all-Rookie Team honors.  An honorable mention All-BIG EAST selection as a senior, he helped lead Villanova to perfect 4-0 city-series records his final two seasons.  He scored 1,306 career points and his 423 assists rank 14th in school history.
 
One of the most prolific scorers in La Salle history, Smith was a three-time First Team all-Big 5 honoree (2004-06) and two-time Atlantic 10 Player of the Year (2005, 2006). He finished his career with 1,940 points to rank seventh all-time in school history.  He also ranks fifth in school history with 872 career rebounds, leading La Salle in the category all four seasons. A two-time NABC all-District honoree, Smith led the Explorers in scoring for three consecutive seasons, including a career-best 20.3 scoring average as a junior in 2004-05. He averaged 18.1 points per game over his four-year career and his 707 field goals made is sixth in school history.