Purvis

[mcs333]

Corny's HS team won 76 straight games and three state championships. Still a record. He started 4 straight years for UCONN , scored 1800+ points, 1000+ rebounds and still I believe holds the school record for most made free throws. He played 1.5 years for the Mav's before he had a serious knee injury. Later played 12 years in Europes where he made millions. He had an excellent career in Italy and Spain. I believe he currently coaches in South America.

 

[superjohn]

80 or 81, The Huskies came into the PCC and won by about 10 points behind Corny and that big goon Alexsinas and my dislike was born.

Haha I know Chuck Aleksinas, he is a nice fellow and an enormous human being.

 

[Doggie Style]

I'm pretty sure Corny Thompson was the #1 ranked player in the country as a HS Senior back in the late 70's. Just because he wasn't here when Calhoun was doesn't mean that he isn't important to the history of UConn.

Never once did I say he wasn't important to our history!

 

[tcf15]

So dirty...

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I'm pretty sure Corny Thompson was the #1 ranked player in the country as a HS Senior back in the late 70's. Just because he wasn't here when Calhoun was doesn't mean that he isn't important to the history of UConn.

Mark Aguirre was #1 coming out of HS that year. There were likely two or three other guys ahead of Corny but you wouldn't have run off many names before you got to Corny which is pretty damned impressive, especially where we were (in terms of national presence) as a program then and how hard Dean Smith went after Corny.

 

[FriarJ]

I was a junior in HS when he was a senior and there were more damn articles in the Westerly Sun about his games than there were about the local HS's.

 

[huskiesnyc]

Is anyone else feeling a Rodney Purvis commitment today? After all we've been through as fans this year, I feel we deserves some good news heading into the weekend

 

[uconnforlife]

Just tweeted that he is transferring to UConn.

 

[Scot-e]

Dude- if you are right post a new topic. This would be big news.

 

[uconnforlife]

Dude- if you are right post a new topic. This would be big news.

Someone beat me to it haha