second All-League team twice. He hit over .790 from the free throw line seven years in a row and held the NBA record for most field goals scored in a single quarter (12).
The Hawks won the Western Division six times during Hagan's playing career there and defeated the Boston Celtics in 1958 for the world championship. Hagan was All-Pro in the NBA in 1957-62, inclusive.
He received his M.S. in education from Washington University in 1958.
He then joined the Dallas Chapparals as player-coach in July, 1976, and was selected as the 1968 Texas Professional Coach of the Year. When he left Dallas, he was only 92 points shy of a regular-season career total of 15,000 points.
In 1974, he was named to the Hall of Fame Magazine's All-America second-team for the 1951-1973 period, to the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel Star's All-Time Southeastern Conference first team, and the All-Time top collegiate player in the State of Kentucky by Inside Kentucky Sports Magazine. In 1975, he was named to the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame, was inducted into the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni and was a recipient of the University of Kentucky Centennial "K" Medallion tendered by the UKAA for past athletic accomplishments, during UK's Centennial Year observance.
He is married to the former Martha Milton of Owensboro.They have four children: Lisa. Laurie, Amy, and Kip.
CITIZENS SAVINGS (HELMS) ATHLETIC FOUNDATION COLLEGIATE BASKETBALL SELECTIONS
College Basketball Hall of Fame
1946-Adolph F. Rupp.......Coach       1966-Cliff Hagan..........Player
1933-Forest (Aggie) Sale ....Player 1968-Charles (Cotton) Nash .. Player 1964 Carey Spicer.........Player        1971 LeRoy Edwards.......Player
Player of the Year
1933Forest Sale . . . Center-Forward        1935 LeRoy Edwards.......Center
1951  Bill Spivey...........Center       1975 Kevin Grevy........Forward
1978 Jack Givens........Forward
Helms' National Champions
Points
W L Points Against
1933-Kentucky...........................20 3 1073 630
1948- Kentucky...........................36 3 2690 1730
1949- Kentucky...........................                                             32 2 2320 1492
1951-Kentucky...........................32 2 2540 1783
1954-Kentucky...........................25 0 2187 1508
1958-Kentucky...........................23 6 2166 1817
1978-Kentucky...........................                                             30 2 2693 2234
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