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UH men’s basketball mourns the death of sport icon coach John Thompson

The Houston men’s basketball team joins the basketball world in mourning the death of former Georgetown head coach John Thompson on Monday morning. He was 78 years old.

Throughout his career as the head coach of Georgetown, he accumulated a 596-239 record, which included winning the 1984 national championship against Houston.

“It doesn’t seem enough to call Big John an icon or a giant in our game. He was and will always be,” head coach Kelvin Sampson shared in a tweet on Monday morning. “The impact he had on me as a young coach trying to make it in this profession we call coaching was as big as he was.