{"id":206966,"date":"2020-08-31T14:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T19:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=206966"},"modified":"2020-08-31T15:28:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:28:41","slug":"former-georgetown-coach-john-thompson-passes-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=206966","title":{"rendered":"Former Georgetown Coach John Thompson passes, 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-206968\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ThompsonJohn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ThompsonJohn.jpg 183w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ThompsonJohn-116x175.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/>(AP) \u2014 The college basketball coaching great John Thompson of Georgetown has died. His death was announced in a family statement Monday. No details were disclosed. Thompson was an imposing Hall of Famer who turned Georgetown into a \u201cHoya Paranoia\u201d powerhouse and became the first Black coach to lead a team to the NCAA men\u2019s basketball championship. One of the most celebrated and polarizing figures in his sport, Thompson took over a moribund Georgetown program in the 1970s and molded it into a perennial contender, culminating with a national title team anchored by Patrick Ewing in 1984. At 6-foot-10, with an ever-present white towel slung over his shoulder, Thompson literally and figuratively towered over the Hoyas for decades. He quit coaching in 1999. John Thompson was 78.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 The college basketball coaching great John Thompson of Georgetown has died. His death was announced in a family statement Monday. No details were disclosed. Thompson was an imposing Hall of Famer who turned Georgetown into a \u201cHoya Paranoia\u201d powerhouse and became the first Black coach to lead a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":206967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206972,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206966\/revisions\/206972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}