One of his sons, John Thompson III ... dropped the application after the university president objected. Centers Ewing, Mourning and Mutombo turned Georgetown into “Big Man U” under Thompson ...

Coach John Thompson, who led the Georgetown University Hoyas basketball team to victory at the 1984 national championship, has died aged 78. Thompson, who was the first black coach to win the ...

And in your worse nightmares, he was there. John Thompson was the great Father Villain of the great Jesuit university of Georgetown. He turned a village of lawyers into Georgetown by John Thompson.

John Thompson with ... He moved on to Georgetown where he took a team struggling and turned them into national champions. In his storied, 27-year career at the university, he won nearly 600 ...

You sit by the tree, you hear people talking about the great legends of the game, then you hear people talk about Bevo, yeah," says former Georgetown coach John Thompson about Bevo Francis on ESPN ...

Today may be just the first official day for college basketball practice (the season starts in 42 days), but Big East Twitter ...

Georgetown coach John Thompson asked him when he got to the ... He was now at a prestigious university playing for one of basketball’s foremost coaches. As it turns out, the coach was feeding ...

Mutombo received an academic scholarship to study medicine at Georgetown University and enrolled ... he came under the tutelage of legendary coach John Thompson, a proven molder of centers who ...

When Dikembe Mutombo drove up for lunch, among the first things I said to him was, “that’s quite a car you have!” “Yes,” the 7-foot-2-inch NBA Hall of Fame great said, “I had to have ...

Dikembe Mutombo, the Basketball Hall of Famer known as much for his finger wagging and singular voice as his defensive prowess, passed away Monday at the age of 58 after a battle with brain cancer.

VETERAN PRESENCES: Of Virginia’s returning players, junior guard Isaac McKneely is the only one who averaged more than 4.3 ...