NEW CASTLE, Ind. – Former New Mexico State women's basketball player Meridith (Sanders) Barone was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame as parts of its 18^th women's induction class, the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame announced Tuesday.
 
"We want to give a huge congratulations to Meridith, your Aggie family is beyond proud of you," said head coach Brooke Atkinson. "This honor really demonstrates the quality of the student-athletes and coaches that have come before us. We have a proud tradition as a university and as a basketball program and honors like this help cement that legacy."
 
Barone played for the Aggies from 1988-92 under head coaches Joe McKeown and Doug Hoselton. She made 116 appearances in the Crimson and White to go with 51 starts, including 30-of-31 games during her senior campaign. The forward averaged 11.3 points and 8.8 points as a senior and wrapped up her career fourth on the NM State blocks list with 67. She also represented the program well off the court, earning academic all-conference honors in 1988-89.
 
Barone hails from West Lafayette, Ind., where she starred at West Lafayette High School. As a senior at West Lafayette, Barone averaged 17.2 points and 11.2 rebounds while shooting 52 percent from the field.  She joins her father, Dave Sanders, a 2017 Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee, in the Hall making them the second father-daughter duo to be enshrined.