PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Former Rutgers women's basketball head coach Theresa Shank Grentz has been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022, announced by the organization on Saturday.

Grentz, who coached the Scarlet Knights as their first full-time head coach from 1976-95, won the 1982 AIAW National Championship with Rutgers after winning three consecutive AIAW titles as a student-athlete at Immaculata University from 1972-74. Playing under her maiden name of Theresa Shank, she was a three-time first-team All-American for the Immaculata "Mighty Macs", as well as the 1974 national player of the year, and she had her jersey No. 12 retired by the school.

She went on to lead Rutgers to three NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances and two NCAA Elite Eight berths in 1986 and 1987, culminating in a 434-150 record (.743) over 19 seasons "On the Banks." That included a 30-3 campaign in 1986-87, for which she earned National Coach of the Year honors.

Grentz then took the reins at Illinois for 12 seasons (1996-2007), helping the Fighting Illini to the 1997 Big Ten title, as well as trips to the Sweet Sixteen in 1997 and 1998, before retiring with 681 career wins with coaching stints at Saint Joseph's and Lafayette at the beginning and end of her 35-year career. Grentz also made numerous contributions to USA Basketball, notably coaching the United States to the gold medal at the 1990 FIBA World Championships (now World Cup) and a bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Alongside her Immaculata teammates, Grentz and the Mighty Mac were previously elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame Class of 2014. 

Grentz joins her successor at Rutgers, C. Vivian Stringer (Class of 2009), in the Naismith Hall of Fame.