Legendary Georgetown Basketball Coach John Thompson passes away

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Legendary Georgetown coach Thompson dies

John Thompson Jr., who led Georgetown to the 1984 national championship and three Final Fours, has died at age 78.

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Built Georgetown into a college hoops powerhouse, and helped turn the Big East into the best basketball league in the nation for a long period of time.

 

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It’s already been explored to some degree with the Big East 30 for 30, but you could make an entire documentary on cultural influence of Georgetown Basketball in the 80s & 90s.

 

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Behind John Thompson’s closed-door meeting with drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III

In the fall of 1988, John Thompson, head basketball coach at Georgetown University, found out that two of his players, John Turner and the No. 1 freshman recrui…

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