{"id":395913,"date":"2026-04-16T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395913\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:56:09","slug":"bruce-pearl-named-to-international-jewish-sports-hall-of-fame-auburn-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395913\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Pearl named to International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame &#8211; Auburn Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUBURN, Ala. \u2013 Former Auburn men\u2019s basketball head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/staff\/bruce-pearl\" title=\"Bruce Pearl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Pearl<\/a> has been named to the International Jewish Hall of Fame Class of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn basketball\u2019s all-time wins leader (244), Pearl is amongst a star-studded induction class of 20 people which also includes sports icons Marv Albert, Julian Edelman, Nancy Lieberman and Al Michaels.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl collected 694 collegiate wins and led Auburn to two Final Fours and five SEC championships in his 11 years on the Plains.<\/p>\n<p>He was the 2025 AP National Coach of the Year and additionally won a Division II National Championship at Southern Indiana in 1995 while posting a record of 86-38 in three at Milwaukee and a mark of 145-61 in six years at Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>International Jewish Hall of Fame Class of 2026:<\/p>\n<p>Marv Albert \u2013 Media<\/p>\n<p>Jay Berger \u2013 Tennis<\/p>\n<p>Omri Casspi \u2013 Basketball<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Duer \u2013 Boxing<\/p>\n<p>Julian Edelman \u2013 Football<\/p>\n<p>Robert Fein \u2013 Weightlifting<\/p>\n<p>Dezso F\u00f6ldes \u2013 Fencing<\/p>\n<p>Yuri Foreman \u2013 Boxing<\/p>\n<p>Noemie Fox \u2013 Canoeing<\/p>\n<p>Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann \u2013 Fencing<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Lieberman \u2013 Basketball<\/p>\n<p>Al Michaels \u2013 Media<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/staff\/bruce-pearl\" title=\"Bruce Pearl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Pearl<\/a> \u2013 Basketball <\/p>\n<p>Morgan Pressel \u2013 Golf<\/p>\n<p>Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum \u2013 Paralympian<\/p>\n<p>Red Sarachek \u2013 Basketball<\/p>\n<p>Danny Schayes \u2013 Basketball<\/p>\n<p>Diego Schwartzman \u2013 Tennis<\/p>\n<p>Doron Shaziri \u2013 Shooting<\/p>\n<p>Andre Tippett \u2013 Football \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUBURN, Ala. \u2013 Former Auburn men\u2019s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl has been named to the International Jewish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-395913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}