BOSTON — The new class of URI Athletics Hall of Famers is heavy on basketball.

Three of the six former athletes selected for induction are former basketball stars Cuttino Mobley, Phil Kydd and Dayna Smith. The others are soccer star Lance Klima, baseball and football standout Tony Hill and volleyball star Jessica Salmans.

They will be inducted at the school’s Hall of Fame weekend Feb. 13-15.

Kydd was a four-year letterman and captain of the 1980-81 team. The 6-foot-4 forward had a career shooting percentage of 50.8 percent from the floor. His teams combined to go 80-37, including three 20-win seasons and an NCAA Tournament berth in 1978.

Mobley, who is playing in the NBA — he recently was traded to the New York Knicks — was one of the best guards in the history of the men’s program, helping guide the team to the Elite Eight of the 1998 NCAA Tournament. That season the Philadelphia native scored 586 points — the eighth-best single season scoring mark (17.1 ppg) — and led the team to a 25-9 record en route to being named the 1998 Atlantic 10 Player of the Year. Over his 93-game career, Mobley tallied 1,334 points, which ranks 21st on the all-time scoring list. He currently ranks second on URI’s career free throw percentage list (256-312, .821).

Smith, currently the head coach at Cornell, was one of the top point guards in Atlantic 10 history while starring for the URI women from 1992-96. One of just 11 players at the NCAA Division I level to record more than 1,000 points and 750 assists, Smith was a key component of the Rams’ run to the 1996 NCAA Tournament. She finished her career with 1,174 points — good for ninth on Rhody’s all-time scoring list — and 184 three-point field goals, which ranks second all-time in the URI record book. Smith recently made a return to the NCAA Tournament, this time as the head coach of Cornell.

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