Saint Louis University head women's basketball coach Lisa Stone was among thirty coaches, players, referees and friends of the game announced on Monday as members of this year's Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame class.
The ceremony will take place at a banquet Sept. 24 at Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells.
Stone is in her 10th season at the helm of the Billikens and has led them to a 161-131 record and four WNIT appearances. She was named the 2016 Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year.
Her 664 career wins ranks rank 14th among active Division I head coaches and 32nd all-time.
A native of Oregon, Wisconsin, Stone earned four letters each in basketball, tennis and track and field during her high school career. She helped lead Oregon to the Wisconsin Class A state basketball tournament in 1979 and 1980, and she earned first-team All-State honors as a senior and second-team recognition as a junior.
After starring for the Panthers, Stone was a three-time team captain and a two-time Hawkeye Most Valuable Player at Iowa from 1980-84, finishing with 1,129 points, 332 assists and 177 steals. As a senior, she won the Big Ten Medal of Honor as one of the top scholar-athletes in the conference and also captured the Iowa Student-Athlete of the Year award.
She then was hired as the head coach at Cornell, an NCAA Division III program in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where she presided from 1985-88.
At NCAA Division III Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Stone turned around a program that had registered just one winning record prior to her arrival. Her teams tallied a 277-59 mark (159-33 in conference play), turned in 11 20-win seasons, reached the NCAA Tournament 11 times and captured six league crowns.
A five-time Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, Stone was inducted into the UW-Eau Claire Blugold Hall of Fame in 2006.
Following a three-year stint at Drake (2000-03), Stone took over as head coach at Wisconsin, where she guided it to five postseason appearances, two 20-win campaigns and a 128-119 record that included a 95-68 mark in her final five seasons. In her fourth season (2006-07), the Badgers won a school-record 23 games (23-13) and finished second in the WNIT.
Following WNIT appearances the next two seasons, Wisconsin's 2009-10 squad posted a 21-11 record, tied for third in the Big Ten Conference and earned an NCAA Tournament bid. Stone was rewarded by being named Big Ten Coach of the Year. The Badgers again tied for third in the Big Ten in 2010-11 and participated in the WNIT.
