BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Former WKU Basketball guard Darius Thompson has inked his first professional contract, signing with Zorg en Zekerheid Basketball Leiden in the Netherlands.
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ZZ Leiden competes in the Dutch Basketball League. The team has won the national championship three times, the NBB Cup twice and the Dutch Basketball Supercup twice.
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Thompson, a 6-foot-4 guard from Murfreesboro, Tenn., joined the Hilltoppers for the 2017-18 season as a graduate transfer from Virginia.
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He left his mark on the program in just one year, starting all 38 games, averaging 35.6 minutes per contest and earning a spot on the All-Conference USA Second Team.
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Thompson averaged 13.6 points, 4.8 assists and 4.2 rebounds for WKU, while netting a team-high 54 made 3-pointers. He was also named to the C-USA All-Tournament Team.
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He set a new program record for most minutes played in a season with 1,354, tied for the most games started in a season in WKU history and finished with the fourth-most assists in a single season (181).
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Thompson's most memorable accomplishment came at Marshall on Jan. 6, when he recorded the second triple-double in Hilltopper history with 33 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.
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Thompson is the second of WKU's three outgoing seniors to sign a professional contract. Forward Justin Johnson has already signed with Italy's Cagliari Dinamo Academy.
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