Former Missouri State men's basketball coach Charlie Spoonhour has been selected for a pair of honors this week. First, the Missouri Valley Conference announced Coach Spoonhour as a member of next year's Hall of Fame class today, and the Summit League has named Spoonhour as an “honored contributor” on the conference’s 30th anniversary list of its all time top performers.

The Missouri Valley Conference will honor Coach Spoonhour on March 2, 2012, at the league’s annual Hall of Fame induction breakfast in St. Louis. There he joins basketball standout Paul Silas of Creighton, men’s soccer coach Fred Schmalz of Evansville, track and field Olympian Connie Price-Smith of Southern Illinois,
basketball icon Denny Crum of Louisville and track star Joey Woody of Northern Iowa in the six-member class of the MVC Hall of Fame.

A native of Rogers, Arkansas, Spoonhour served as head men’s basketball coach at Missouri State from 1983 to 1992, taking over the program the Bears’ second year in Division I and guiding MSU through its first two seasons in The Valley. In his nine seasons as head coach at MSU, he finished with a 197-81 record and five trips to the NCAA Tournament, along with two NIT appearances.