Georgetown Coach new to Final Four

The Final Four of the NCAA Tournament this weekend will pit some of the greatest players in college basketball against one another, but it will also be a battle between four great coaches.  Florida, Georgetown, UCLA and Ohio State have all reached this milestone achievement, but some of the coaches you’ll see this weekend have been here before. 
 

It seems that clearly the weakest coach of the four remaining is Georgetown’s John Thompson III.  JT3 has only been with the Hoyas program for a couple of years after coaching at Princeton, where he also played when he was in college.  He has instituted the Princeton style of offence at Georgetown with great success. 
 

You can debate whether he was the one who “turned around” the program at Georgetown or not, but the fact remains that he was nearly in the Elite Eight last year, and now finds himself in the Final Four.
 

Of course, being a Thompson at Georgetown tends to make things run a bit more smoothly, and he admittedly gets help with coaching the program from his legendary father.  Unlike the other coaches, Billy Donovan, Thad Matta and Ben Howland, John Thompson III has never been to even the Elite Eight before.  If you wanted to see JT3’s Final Four debut, then StubHub.com would have been your source for those great NCAA Tournament tickets

Posted in General on March 29, 2007

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