Kentucky Wesleyan College legend "King Kelly" Coleman will be inducted into the first class of the Kentucky Association of Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame on Saturday night in Elizabethtown.

Coleman along with 15 other Kentucky icons – 11 players and four coaches – will be honored for their historic high school accomplishments during the 50s, 60, 70s and 80s.

"King" Kelly" earned the state’s first Mr. Basketball recognition and still holds Kentucky’s boys’ high school career scoring record with 4,337 points from 1953 to 1956 at Wayland High School.

At Kentucky Wesleyan, Coleman was a two-time All-American where he finished third in career points with 2,077 and sixth in rebounding with 904 from 1958 to 1960.

During his senior year in 1960 he was third in the nation in scoring with 30.3 points per game. His jersey No. 45 has been retired and the fans voted Coleman to KWC’s All-Century Team in 2010.

The inductees are listed by high school decades:
· 1940 – Ralph Beard (Male), Wah Wah Jones (Harlan) and Cliff Hagan (Owensboro).
· 1950 – Coleman (Wayland) and coach Ralph Carlisle (Lexington Lafayette).
· 1960 – West Unseld (Seneca), Clem Haskins (Taylor County) and coach S.T. Roach (Lexington Dunbar).
· 1970 – Darrell Griffith (Male), Jim McDaniels (Allen County), Geri Grigsby (McDowell) and coach Roy Bowling (Laurel County).
· 1980 – Rex Chapman (Apollo), Richie Farmer (Clay County), Clemette Haskins (Warren Central) and coach Bobby Keith (Clay County).

Hall of Fame ceremonies will take place at the Historic State Theatre in Elizabethtown. A reception will begin at 5 p.m. CT before the ceremony starts at 7 p.m. Tickets to the event are $30 and may be purchased by calling 270-234-8354.