Sports briefs 5/19/05

Basketball

* Houston coach Jeff Van Gundy agreed Wednesday to a one-year contract extension with the Rockets through the 2007-08 season.

Van Gundy has two years remaining on his original four-year deal that he signed in June 2003 and paid him $18 million. Terms of the extension weren't immediately available.

He might have done his best coaching job last season, helping the Rockets recover from a 6-11 start en route to a 51-31 finish and the No. 5 seed in the West despite three midseason trades that dramatically changed the makeup of the team. The Rockets lost to the Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the playoffs.

College

* Illinois wide receiver David Williams is among 11 players and two coaches newly elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

The class of 2005 was announced Wednesday. They will be inducted in December at an awards banquet in New York and enshrined at the hall in South Bend, Ind., next year.

Williams is the 16th Illini to get into the hall, the first since Al Brosky was inducted in 1998.

Williams finished his college career with 245 receptions and 3,195 receiving yards in 33 games. In 1983, he led the Illini to their first Big Ten title in 20 years.

Other notable selections include Heisman Trophy winner John Huarte and Southern California tailback Anthony Davis.

Huarte won the Heisman for Notre Dame in 1964, quarterbacking the Fighting Irish to a share of the national title.

Davis finished second in the Heisman voting as a senior in 1974, but his signature game came in 1972 when he scored six touchdowns against Notre Dame.

Also entering the Hall of Fame are Pittsburgh offensive lineman Mark May, Alabama linebacker Cornelius Bennett, Michigan defensive back Tom Curtis, Penn State offensive tackle Keith Dorney, Ohio State end Jim Houston, Texas fullback Roosevelt Leaks, Oklahoma running back Joe Washington and Stanford defensive lineman Paul Wiggin.