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stevie thompson

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in my top 3 all time SU favorites. what a finisher! and a GREAT defender.
 
if he only had a jumper -
loved to watch him play
 
And he still looks the same as the last day he suited up for us. Never forget his senior season - was at the game vs. UConn at Hartford. Close game all the way. Under a minute left, he seemed to sense a turnover coming and slipped out to halfcourt. The TO happened and he took the outlet for the dunk that sealed the game. LOVE Stevie.
 
Ya he is stilk as skinny as a pick. Hasnt gained any weight since su.

Texted from my Droid...
 
The dunk off of Sherm's between-the-legs pass against Indiana.

He was the best. My All-Time favorite Orangeman. Never needed a blow, either. Could play all day.
 
loved stevie. one of my all time faves as well
 
would love to see Stevie dunk one after the game wearing that shirt and tie. He would get the biggest cheer of the game.
 
Pearl and Stevie were my two "most fun to watch" players.
 
if he only had a jumper -
loved to watch him play

They had an interesting stat tonight- Stevie has the SECOND highest fg% in NCAA tournament history.#1... Bill Walton.
 
Remember the year of the experiment with Stevie at PG?
 
Walton's biggest flaw in college was an inability to avoid dunking violations... His % would be stunning if he didn't average a couple a game.
 
I remember Stevie covering more ground with one dribble and two steps than almost anyone ever. Could have been an champion triple jumper.

I try not to remember Stevie as the PG.
 
The announcers said Stevie likes to bring his team to SU because "a lot of the guys on our team think they are hot stuff. I bring them out here to show them guys that are hot stuff." lol.
 
I remember that but can't remember how long it lasted?

Not long but I don't remember the number of games. It was Michael Edwards that ended up being the PG correct?
 
Not long but I don't remember the number of games. It was Michael Edwards that ended up being the PG correct?

I believe so--and if I remember correctly, it was a very painful year to watch the PG play...
 
I believe so--and if I remember correctly, it was a very painful year to watch the PG play...

All that team needed was a good play making PG. Ellis, Owens and Coleman on the front line. Just looked at the stats for that season and Stevie started 14 games at PG with David Johnson at 2G. When Edwards moved to the PG for the remainder of the season, Stevie slid to the 2G and Johnson came off the bench. That team underachieved due to a lack of a good PG or even an experienced one. Edwards was a frosh. We were ranked for the first 11 weeks of the season until we lost to Nova. Ended up ranked 6th and getting knocked out of the NCAA's by Minnesota in the 3rd round.
 
I had to go to youtube to show my kids the Sherm hike to Stevie. Lots of other great highlights out there also. Stevie is definitely one of my all-time favs along with Sherm, Santifer and Raf.
 
All that team needed was a good play making PG. Ellis, Owens and Coleman on the front line. Just looked at the stats for that season and Stevie started 14 games at PG with David Johnson at 2G. When Edwards moved to the PG for the remainder of the season, Stevie slid to the 2G and Johnson came off the bench. That team underachieved due to a lack of a good PG or even an experienced one. Edwards was a frosh. We were ranked for the first 11 weeks of the season until we lost to Nova. Ended up ranked 6th and getting knocked out of the NCAA's by Minnesota in the 3rd round.
Yep. All that talent and the game comes down to Tony Scott taking an ill advised 3 with less than a minute to play and SU down by a point. The 1989 loss to Illinois in the Elite 8 was a tougher loss though, especially after beating Missouri in that epic Sweet 16 game.
 
My personal Stevie Thompson memory:

Four of my fraternity brothers and I took a 1 credit skiing class our senior year at Mount Labrador. This meant that we had to drive to the mountain 2 times a week at @1:00. We'd make it back to campus at about 4:00 or 5:00.

So one day we were driving back and it was snowing. We got to campus and we were driving on University Place, I think. In front of us was a station wagon and the driving conditions had become fairly treacherous at that point. My friend Mike was driving our car. Suddenly, for seemingly no reason the wagon in front of us stopped short very nearly causing us to smack into it. We didn't hit them but Mike got really pissed and started honking, Rob joined in, rolling down his window and yelling obscenities (so unlike him). Well all of a sudden all four doors on the wagon flew open and out jumped the whole basketball team! I'm talking Derrick Coleman, Stevie Thompson, Earl Duncan, Matt Roe, Greg Monroe, Howard Triche, etc. (you really get a sense of how big they are when they are five feet from you and ready to kick your ass). They were not getting out of their car to apologize either. We were momentarily stunned (think deer in headlights) by this sight and had no idea what to do. Someone yelled 'DRIVE! DRIVE! DRIVE!' Mike took off, swerving around their car.

They all jumped back into their car and started chasing us. We were flying around campus sliding all over the road trying to lose them, Rob still had his window down was hanging out of the car and giving them the bird the whole time. Finally we decided our best bet is to go to our fraternity house. We figured if we pulled into our fraternity driveway they'd just blow us off and keep driving. Wrong.

So we careened into the driveway and they pull in right behind us. I think I ran into the house and said something like 'The basketball team is gonna kick our ass!' So everybody emptied out into the driveway. We had 20-30 guys ready to face off against the team that was about to embark on a Final Four run. Someone from the house said to them 'What's the problem?' This was answered by Stevie Thompson who got in Rob's face and said "I want you, !" Our house was on a hill and we were standing on the upslope looking down at the team. A guy in my house named Trent who was eternally stoned/drunk, took advantage of his position on the hill to walk right up to Derrick Coleman and get right in DC's face (what is Coleman, like 6'10", 6'11"? and Trent was maybe 6'3") Trent didn't say anything, instead he took a drag of his cigarette, never breaking eye contact with Coleman and blew the smoke right into DC's face.

The silence was deafening. I think right about then, the players realized how many guys we're standing there, backed off, got back in their car and left.

I will never forget that. I remember as the team was playing in the Final Four later that month, that I thought if anyone of the team had gotten hurt the night of the altercation, that my fraternity would not have been the most popular house on campus the next day.

All that notwithstanding - I loved Stevie Thompson, definitely one of my all-time faves as well.
 
My personal Stevie Thompson memory:

That is one cool and funny story. Surprised DC backed down and left. He never backed down from a fight even against football players with other players around.
 
Surprised DC backed down and left. He never backed down from a fight even against football players with other players around.

Not as surprised (and glad!) as we were!
 
My personal Stevie Thompson memory:

All I can say is from personal experience is you're lucky Derek Brower wasn't with them. :bat: Derek was a nice guy, but could be a bad man!
 

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