CLEMSON — Clemson women’s basketball star Barbara Kennedy-Dixon was elected to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame 2026 class as a posthumous veteran honoree on Oct. 30.
Kennedy-Dixon played for Clemson from 1978-82 and scored 3,113 career points, which rank seventh all-time in women’s college basketball. She holds the Clemson and ACC career records in scoring, rebounds (1,252), field goals (1,349) and field goal attempts (2,688).
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She was a two-time All-American and is one of eight players with at least 3,000 points and 1,000 rebounds since the NCAA started sponsoring women’s sports in 1981-82. Kennedy-Dixon was the first woman to be inducted into the Clemson Ring of Honor in 2000.
She died from cancer at age 58 on July 23, 2018.
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Kennedy-Dixon is one of eight members elected to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame 2026 class. Basketball legend Candace Parker, WNBA great Elena Delle Donne, Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve, NBA analyst Doris Burke, international players Isabelle Fijalkowski and Amaya Valdemoro and Kirkwood Community College coach Kim Muhl are the other inductees.
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The class will be inducted on June 27, 2026, at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville.
Derrian Carter covers Clemson athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email him at dcarter@gannett.com and follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DerrianCarter00
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