The force is with Skywalker.
No, not Luke from “Star Wars.” We’re talking high-flying North Carolina State All-American and former Nuggets star David Thompson. The original.
Thompson joined Duke’s Christian Laettner, UCLA’s Sidney Wicks and West Virginia’s Jerry West among the eight members of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2010 class that was announced Wednesday.
“There’s an argument that (Thompson) may be the best college player ever,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski told The Associated Press. “Certainly, in our conference, many, many people would give him that vote.”
Triangle offense innovator Tex Winter, Alcorn State coach Davey Whitney, NCAA executive vice president Tom Jern- stedt and former Big Eight and Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke also will be inducted Nov. 21 in Kansas City, Mo. West and Thompson will be recognized as founding members of the Hall after being inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame before 2006.
