When Georgetown University won the NCAA men's basketball championship in 1984, head coach John Thompson made history. Thompson, though, had mixed feelings about becoming the first African American ...

The Univesity of Georgetown had always been notorious for molding great young big men who would build Hall-of-Fame-worthy NBA careers. A big reason for that was the legendary coach John Thompson ...

and two Defensive Player of the Year awards – his path to greatness began on the hallowed grounds of Georgetown University under the tutelage of the iconic Coach John Thompson Jr. For any Hoya ...

pays tribute to Georgetown University’s basketball team of the ’80s. Those unapologetically Black teams were coached by John ...

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 ...