![]() ![]() ![]() 714 winning percentage from 1972 to 1999. ![]() ![]() He compiled a 596-239 record over 27 years, with a. Thompson became their coach just five years later, beginning his career the first year that freshmen were eligible for varsity sports. The basketball team did not have a single Black player until 1967. Though Thompson was happy at Providence College, he had hoped to attend Georgetown, but the school he later coached for 27 years remained segregated. For those Knick fans who don’t know they are rooting for the “Knickerbockers,” we’ll just call it the NIT. “BIG JOHN… BIG BAD JOHN” – Song lyric from my adolescence (that has escaped Google’s dragnet).įormer Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson’s autobiographical account of his life and times I Came As A Shadow, written along with Jesse Washington, and completed just before Thompson’s death in 2020 at the age of 78 (2020), is a passionate, but sober paean to his parents’ teachings and love.ĭisclosure: Like Thompson, I graduated college in1964, and thrilled to the spirit and energy that his Providence College teams brought to the then still hallowed National Invitation Tournament. ![]()
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