The college basketball world lost two icons in the last week of August. Lute Olson and John Thompson II passed on August 27 and 30 respectively. Thompson accrued 596 wins in his career and Olson accumulated 781. Thompson won a national championship in 1984 and Olson won one in 1997. That’s some coaching royalty right there. I went back and re-watched the game where these two went head-to-head in on March 16, 1980; the winner would get to the Final Four. At the time I was 10 years old. Lute!, Lute!, Lute! made Iowa basketball a must-see-TV event in the state at that time.
Iowa vs. Georgetown ‘80 Final Four
