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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Dominique Wilkins still doesnt know how Hugh Durham got him out of North Carolina.He was recruited by every school in the state, the perennial powers and the up-and-coming programs, and wound up following Durham to Georgia. Together, the tall and talented forward and the small and humble coach built a powerhouse program at a school with little basketball success.And together, they were enshrined in the Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday.This is really special for me in many ways, Wilkins said, turning to face Durham seated alongside him, because how many times do you get to go into the Hall of Fame with your coach? I love this guy.Wilkins and Durham were joined in this years class by the late Bob Boozer, a star in the 1950s at Kansas State; Doug Collins, who played at Illinois State before a long career as an NBA player and coach; DePaul star Mark Aguirre; longtime college coach Mike Montgomery; former La Salle standout Lionel Simmons; and Jamaal Wilkes, who was part of the dominant UCLA teams of the early 1970s.They spent time mingling at the College Basketball Experience in downtown Kansas City, some of them meeting for the first time, before a Friday night ceremony. They also spent time swapping stories and reminiscing.I dont know if I liked Coach Durham when I was a player. He was tough, Wilkins said with a smile. But what he taught me was how to be a young man first, a basketball player second. Being a basketball player is easy if you can perfect being a young man.Naturally, Durham deferred to one of his brightest stars.Most of the time if youre successful, he said, its because you have people around you that want you to be successful. You have to have players to win.Wilkins and Durham certainly won together, leading the Bulldogs to unprecedented heights, but they also won separately. Wilkins went on to become a nine-time All-Star in the NBA while Durham retired as the career wins leader at Georgia, Florida State and Jacksonville.The relationship between player and coach was an underlying theme to the 11th class.Montgomery talked about the players who helped make Stanford a perennial NCAA Tournament team, and the dozens more who helped him turn around programs at Montana and California.Its a tremendous honor to be here and be inducted. Its just kind of an honor for a job well-done, a lot of time put in, he said. All of us, when we were young, wanted to be in a position these young men are. Of course, Id much rather be inducted as a player, but I lost the gene pool battle.Boozer certainly didnt lose that one. He starred for the Wildcats before deferring his pro dreams for a year so that he could play on the gold medal-winning 1960 Olympic team.Neither did Wilkes, who was part of the Bruins record 88-game win streak from 1971-74, nor Simmons, who emerged from the rough Philadelphia projects to score 3,217 points for the Explorers.Aguirre also stayed home to play college hoops. The schoolboy legend from Chicago wound up leading DePaul to the Final Four as a freshman, and was the AP player of the year before his own NBA career.I can appreciate it, but I dont know if I can grasp the fact that I should be here, he said. I saw Oscar Robertson. I saw John Wooden, Lew Alcindor. So its hard for me. I guess itll come, but at this moment, its hard for me to think I should be here.Collins joked that he never had such a problem with humility, perhaps because of the long odds that he overcame. He never started in high school until his senior year, he was so lightly recruited he wound up at Illinois State, then the coach that recruited him retired after his freshman season.The skinny white kid from Illinois would end up playing for Will Robinson, a Detroit native and the first black coach in Division I basketball, forging one of the closest bonds of their lives.One of the things we all have in common is none of us ever started out thinking wed be in the Hall of Fame. We never walked out to play or practice or do what we loved because of what was going to come later, Collins said. Im a product of the Coach Durhams, the Coach Montgomerys. Every one of us here had someone that came along that we trusted, we put our faith in, that got us where we wanted to go. 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Left-arm (almost) everything From No. 7 down, Pakistans team-sheet for the match listed the following names: Mohammad Nawaz, Imad Wasim, Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Amir, Rumman Raees. Two left-arm spinners, three left-arm seamers. But just when you thought Pakistan would achieve the first of completing an entire T20I innings with only left-arm bowlers, that man Shoaib Malik ruined everything, sending down his shuffling right-arm offbreaks in the eighth and tenth overs of West Indies innings.The mix-up In the fifth over of West Indies innings, Andre Fletcher worked Mohammad Nawazs left-arm spin into the leg side and called for a single. At the non-strikers end, Samuels seemed to respond to the call, taking a couple of steps out of his crease. But he stopped abruptly, and put his arm up. Fletcher by then was halfway down the pitch with nowhere to go. He turned and tried to regain his ground, but it was too late, and even a wayward throw from the square leg fielder, forcing wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed to jump and reach over his head, couldnt save him.Pakistans (Taylor) swift start With Pakistan chasing less than six an over, it was imperative West Indies made their batsmen work as hard as possible for their runs. The very first over failed to meet that objectivve, as Jerome Taylor struggled to get his radar in order.dddddddddddd First up, a short ball angling down the leg side, which the left-handed Sharjeel Khan only had to help to the fine-leg boundary. Then a wide down the leg side. Then another ball angling down leg, running away for four leg byes after hitting Sharjeels thigh pad as he missed a flick. In his next over, Taylor was as prone to bowling down the leg side against the right-handed Khalid Latif. With fine leg inside the circle, he glanced and pulled him for three successive fours.The dancing debutant Kesrick Williams is 26, comes from St Vincent and the Grenadines, and bowls right-arm medium-fast, with lots of changes in pace. Making his international debut, he struck twice in Pakistans sixth over, slanting one across to get Sharjeel nicking off before slipping an offcutter through Khalid Latifs back-foot push. This was enough to constitute a Play of the Day, but Williams celebratory jig after taking Latifs wicket lifted this sequence another notch: feet apart, hips wiggling sinuously; arms in the air for two beat cycles, then a clap; arms up again, and another clap. ' ' '