Show notes:

Intro (00:00 - 00:47)

Preview of the continuation of our player spotlight on the great John Thompson (00:48 -01:40)

Two seasons of the Reggie Williams era in which they made two more NCAA tournament appearances (01:41 - 03:08)

1987-88 season with another NCAA tournament bid; John coaching the 1988 Summer Olympic basketball team that earned a bronze medal; his face-to-face meeting with noted drug lord Rayful Edmond III about him befriended two of his players and the result of that sitdown (03:09 - 09:43)

The Alonzo Mourning/Dikembe Mutombo era which saw four more NCAA tournament appearances as well as John protesting the Proposition 48 rule (later called Proposition 42 rule) and its racial implications for disadvantaged lower income student athletes (09:44 - 17:16)

The Othella Harrington/Jerome Willi ...