Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite a bit better than last year," Munro said." But you have to consider that we play teams of a very high level of competition. One reason Munro thinks they can improve is the return of junior Leroy Thompson to the goalie spot, where he had a standout freshman season...
After a year of bastard claims to the throne, North Carolina State finally attained legitimacy last night. Led by crown prince David Thompson's 21 points, the Wolfpack banished court jester Al McGuire and his Marquette Warriors, 76-64, to formally capture the NCAA basketball crown...
McGuire's floating-triangle defense, designed to collapse on Burleson and shut down Thompson and guard Monte Towe man-on-man, soon joined the Warrior control-offense schemes as just so much chalk on the dressing-room blackboard...
Leading the Wolfpack, of course, is Thompson, the player who inspired one pro scout to say that he was "one of the ten best basketball players in America-college or pro." His supporting cast includes one of the tallest and one of the shortest men playing collegiate ball. The tallest is Tom Burleson, a better than adequate, if not great, 7 ft., 4 in. center and the shortest is a ball-hawking guard in Monty Towe, all of 5 ft., 51/2 in. With Thompson as the middle man around this odd couple, State has won all but one game...
Against Providence, Thompson tossed in an amazing 40 points to lead the Pack to a quick victory and in the Pitt game, the Thompson-less Wolfpack thrashed the hapless Pennsylvanians by 28 points. Indeed, if Norm Sloan, the State coach, hadn't put in the water boy, two cheerleaders as well as both sons, ages nine and fourteen, at the end of the game, it would have been...