December 17 — Hank Luisetti, college basketball player and inventor of the layup; first player to score 50 points in a game (born 1916)
Referencesedit
^"Hall of Famers". Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 12 Oct 2014.
^"Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2002". Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
^"Former Clemson basketball coach Bobby Roberts passes". Clemson Tigers. June 22, 2002. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
^"Former Virginia Men's Basketball Coach Billy McCann Dies In South Carolina". Virginia Cavaliers. August 1, 2002. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
External linksedit
Media related to 2002 in basketball at Wikimedia Commons