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Todd and Sergent to be Inducted Into Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame
Todd and Sergent to be Inducted Into Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame
Note: Josh Moore from the Lexington Herald-Leader made contributions to this article.

MOREHEAD, Ky.—Current Morehead State women's basketball head coach Greg Todd and former men's basketball star Harold Sergent will be inducted into the Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame tonight (July 22).
 
New members will be officially inducted as part of a ceremony beginning at 5 p.m. ET at the State Theater in Elizabethtown. The KHSBHF began inducting members in 2009 to coincide with the centennial year of high school basketball in the state of Kentucky.
 
Todd, who has led the Eagle women's team to its first-ever berth in the Women's National Invitation Tournament this year, was a coaching legend at Lexington Catholic High School and Berea High School. He guided LCHS to a 225-26 (.896) mark in seven seasons, reaching the 30-victory plateau five times. He won Kentucky state championships in 2000-01, 2004-05 and 2005-06 and is the first coach in state history in either gender to lead his team to four consecutive state title games. His teams were state runners-up in 2002-03 and 2003-04. The program also won the 11th region title six times.
 
His 2005-06 squad, which featured five all-state players and seven eventual Division I players, was 35-1 and finished No. 3 in the final USA Today girls high school poll. That still stands as the highest national ranking for a Kentucky boys or girls team. He was named EA Sports National Coach of the Year by StudentSports.com.
 
Eleven of his players earned Division I scholarships and 20 moved on to play college basketball. He coached notable Division I student-athletes Natalie Novosel (Notre Dame), Keyla Snowden (Kentucky) and Nikki Davis (Alabama and Virginia Tech). Novosel was Notre Dame's leading scorer during its 2010-11 run to the national championship game. Snowden helped guide UK to Elite Eight appearances in 2009-10 and 2011-12. Davis is a former assistant coach at Morehead State.

Todd's teams at Berea reached the 20-win standard every season despite never accomplishing that feat before in school history. The 1997-98 squad was 29-6 and advanced to the final four of the state's Sweet 16 Tournament.
 
Sergent helped lead the 1961 Ashland High School team to a state championship. He went on to star at Morehead State from 1962-65, compiling 1,469 career points to rank 11th all-time on the 1,000-point club list. He also ranks ninth all-time with 363 free throws made during his career.
 
He was named First-Team All-Ohio Valley Conference three times and left MSU with a 23.2 scoring average. At the time of his induction in the MSU Athletic Hall of Fame (1985), he ranked second in single-season scoring average and held the record for best single-game scoring performance by tossing in 52 points against Middle Tennessee during the 1964-65 season. He was also named OVC Player of the Year in 1963, the first year that award was handed out.

Sergent also was an excellent baseball player for MSU. He was a First-Team All-OVC selection and shared the OVC pitching record for most wins in a season (10).
 
Sergent's No. 50 jersey was retired and hangs in Johnson Arena amongst the best players in school history.
 
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