DETROIT (9/16/2016) -- Two more Titans will earn Hall Of Fame status as men's basketball All-American Terry Tyler and women's basketball standout Lisa Blackburn will be enshrined into the Detroit Sports Zone High School Hall Of Fame on Saturday.

The ceremony will take place at Bert's Market Place Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 6:30 p.m.

The late Lisa Blackburn was one of the building blocks for the women's basketball program. She came to Calihan Hall in 1978 – just the second year of women's hoops at Detroit – and quickly helped the team to national accolades. The Titans recorded four 20-win seasons, including a school-record 27-4 mark during her freshman campaign of 1978-79. Her Titan teams won three-straight state titles from 1979-81, and finished runner-up in the regionals in 1979 and 1980. The 1980 Titan squad also became the first to be invited to a national tournament as it earned a bid to the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women's (AIAW) National Tournament. The Titans were also nationally ranked during the 1978-79 and 1979-80 seasons.
 
In her career, she tallied 13.8 points per game, with her 1,440 career points still ranking still fifth all-time in school history. She is also third in school history with 846 rebounds, seventh with 215 steals and 10th with 294 assists.  She was selected All-State as a junior after earning honorable mention All-State in her first two years. She was also selected to the Region V All-Tournament squad as a junior and was nominated for the United Foundation's "Sportswomen of the Year" in the fall of 1980.

As a prep, Blackburn was a Parade Magazine All-American as a senior at Pershing High School. She was All-State and All-City and in one of her finest performances on the court, she set a Detroit Public School League record with 58 points in a game over Osborn High School. She would later go on to coach high school, returning to Pershing and leading one of the best teams in the city. In 2008, she was named the Detroit Public Schools (PSL) Girls Basketball Coach of the Year by the Detroit Free Press as she guided the Doughgirls to a 19-2 record and a PSL championship.

Terry Tyler was a member of some of the greatest Titan teams in school history. Recruited by Dick Vitale and playing for Vitale and head coach Smokey Gaines, he was a member of a four-year run of men's basketball that saw the program go 86-25 with a pair of postseason appearances. 

The 1976-77 squad posted a school record 25 wins and won its first-ever NCAA Tournament game defeating Middle Tennessee State and setting up a showdown with Michigan in the second round. The 1977-78 team once again tallied 25 wins and won its first round game of the NIT downing VCU before falling to North Carolina State.

He is currently the all-time blocks leader in school history with 359 swats as well as third in rebounds (1,151), tied for fifth in steals (154) and seventh scoring (1,649). He set the school record for blocked shots in a game with 13 against Western Michigan on Feb. 15, 1978, and in a season with 172 in 1978. 

He was drafted by the Detroit Pistons in the second round of the 1978 draft (23rd overall) and played 11 seasons in the NBA and in 871 career games with Detroit, Sacramento, and Dallas. He averaged 10.2 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in his professional career, including a career-best 14.3 as a member of the Pistons in 1980-81. 

The pride of Northwestern High School, he guided the team to a 20-0 record as a senior – where he was tabbed All-State – and one of the top-ranked squads in Michigan Class A. 

The two inductees will move the number of Titans to seven in the organization's Hall of Fame as former men's basketball coach Perry Watson and men's basketball star Spencer Haywood were honored in 2013, while women's basketball assistant coach Lydia Sims along with men's basketball players Earl Cureton and Wilbert McCormick were inducted last year. 
 
The Detroit Sports Zone was formed exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Specifically, The Detroit Sports Zone's objective is to provide opportunities and to educate youth, adults, and older adult populations of Detroit (and surrounding areas) as to the benefits of participation in sports and related cultural and performing arts activities. The Detroit Sports Zone was established in February 2012 as a State of Michigan/Non-profit organization and has applied and been approved for IRS/501 C-3 status. They host a Hall of Fame event each September to honor those champions (All City of Detroit and/ or All State of Michigan) who have committed to the quality of education through athletics.

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