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All-time wins leader Bob McKillop to join SoCon Hall of Fame
10/23/2025 10:23:00 AM | Men's Basketball
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Southern Conference announced on Thursday morning, former Davidson men's basketball coach Bob McKillop, along with four others, will make up the League's 2026 Hall of Fame class.
The ceremony will be held at Battery Park Hall in Asheville, N.C., on Thursday, March 5.
Georgia Southern football coach Paul Johnson (1997-2001), The Citadel football standout Paul Maguire (1957-1959), Furman women's basketball student-athlete and coach Jackie Smith Carson (1997-2000, 2011-2023), and App State men's soccer legend Thompson Usiyan (1977-1980) were also selected for this year's class.
McKillop will be inducted into the Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame on January 10.
Bob McKillop (1989-2022), Head Coach, Men's Basketball
A Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame nominee, McKillop, 75, is the most successful coach in school and league history and concluded his illustrious career ranked 54th on the NCAA Division I wins list with 634 victories.
During the 2021-22 campaign, McKillop led the Wildcats to their second-most wins in a single season, going 27-7 overall, which included a program-best 15-3 mark in Atlantic 10 play. In addition to earning his 11th (9 – SoCon, 2 – A-10) Conference Coach of the Year honor, McKillop's final campaign was capped by the school's second NCAA Tournament at-large bid.
In all, McKillop-coached teams reached postseason play 19 times—the NCAA Tournament in 1998, 2002, 2006-08, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2022, the NIT in 1994, 1996, 2005, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2019 and 2021, and the CBI in 2011.
The 2007-08 NABC National Coach of the Year led Davidson to the 2008 NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional Championship game with victories over three nationally ranked foes—Gonzaga, Georgetown and Wisconsin. The Wildcats' unbelievable run ended with a two-point loss to eventual National Champion Kansas, and Davidson finished the campaign with a final ranking of ninth in the ESPN/USA Today Poll.
Along with tying the school's single-season record for wins with 29, McKillop and the 'Cats strung together 25 consecutive victories, the longest streak in the nation, before falling to the Jayhawks on the doorstep of the Final Four.
The Wildcats hit the 20-win plateau 17 times under McKillop's leadership, while seven teams won 25 games or more.
The ceremony will be held at Battery Park Hall in Asheville, N.C., on Thursday, March 5.
Georgia Southern football coach Paul Johnson (1997-2001), The Citadel football standout Paul Maguire (1957-1959), Furman women's basketball student-athlete and coach Jackie Smith Carson (1997-2000, 2011-2023), and App State men's soccer legend Thompson Usiyan (1977-1980) were also selected for this year's class.
McKillop will be inducted into the Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame on January 10.
Bob McKillop (1989-2022), Head Coach, Men's Basketball
A Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame nominee, McKillop, 75, is the most successful coach in school and league history and concluded his illustrious career ranked 54th on the NCAA Division I wins list with 634 victories.
During the 2021-22 campaign, McKillop led the Wildcats to their second-most wins in a single season, going 27-7 overall, which included a program-best 15-3 mark in Atlantic 10 play. In addition to earning his 11th (9 – SoCon, 2 – A-10) Conference Coach of the Year honor, McKillop's final campaign was capped by the school's second NCAA Tournament at-large bid.
In all, McKillop-coached teams reached postseason play 19 times—the NCAA Tournament in 1998, 2002, 2006-08, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2022, the NIT in 1994, 1996, 2005, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2019 and 2021, and the CBI in 2011.
The 2007-08 NABC National Coach of the Year led Davidson to the 2008 NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional Championship game with victories over three nationally ranked foes—Gonzaga, Georgetown and Wisconsin. The Wildcats' unbelievable run ended with a two-point loss to eventual National Champion Kansas, and Davidson finished the campaign with a final ranking of ninth in the ESPN/USA Today Poll.
Along with tying the school's single-season record for wins with 29, McKillop and the 'Cats strung together 25 consecutive victories, the longest streak in the nation, before falling to the Jayhawks on the doorstep of the Final Four.
The Wildcats hit the 20-win plateau 17 times under McKillop's leadership, while seven teams won 25 games or more.
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