Famed photographer Rich Clarkson has donated his “100 Years of Kansas Basketball” exhibit to KU officials, who this week bolted 40 framed photographs to a pair of walls in Parrott Athletic Center adjacent to coach Bill Self’s new digs.

Pictures of the inventor of the game — Dr. James Naismith — plus coaches Phog Allen, Dick Harp, Ted Owens, Larry Brown, Roy Williams and players Wilt Chamberlain, Danny Manning and a plethora of others line the walls.

In past years, the exhibit has hung at both the Naismith Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., and the NCAA Visitors Center, formerly in Overland Park.

“This chronicles our history in pictures and provides a good entry way leading to the basketball office,” KU associate athletic director Doug Vance said. “It will give recruits and others a good feel of what Kansas basketball is about. Obviously we could hang pictures of many others, but this is the original Rich Clarkson collection.”

The pictures in the Clarkson collection run through the 1997-98 season.

Pictures of the past several seasons soon will be framed and hung on the walls leading from the basketball office to the James Naismith room in Parrott Center.

The pictures in the Clarkson collection — both black and white and color — include action shots and bench shots.

• Summer leagues: Nick Collison will be playing for the Seattle SuperSonics summer league team in the Los Angeles summer pro league, July 7-16 in California. Kirk Hinrich will play for the Chicago Bulls summer team in the Rocky Mountain Review, July 18-26 in Salt Lake City.

• Walden lauds rule: Former KU basketball academic adviser Wayne Walden, who has accepted a similar post at North Carolina, said a new NCAA rule would have a tremendous impact on the game.

Starting with the incoming class of 2003, all players must have 40 percent of their coursework completed in their major by the start of their third year of college and 60 percent by the start of their fourth year. The old requirements were 25 percent by the start of the third year; 40 percent by the fourth.

“It strengthens things quite a bit,” Walden said. “Student-athletes are going to have to decide earlier what they will major in. Twenty five percent really wasn’t that difficult. Forty percent is a big jump. It also is going to have a great impact on junior-college players who want to transfer in.”

Walden is proud of KU’s current four-year graduation rate of 73 percent.

“You certainly have some programs out there who hurt the image of college athletics,” Walden said, “but you have a lot of people out there trying to do things the right way. Kansas is one of those institutions who do try to do things the right way.”