October 31, 2007 - Rider’s Thompson on 2007-08 CollegeInsider.com Preseason All-America Team
October 31, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Rider’s Thompson on 2007-08 CollegeInsider.com Preseason All-America Team
LAWRENCEVILLE—No longer sitting at the kiddy table, Rider University’s Jason Thompson is now playing with the big boys. Last season Thompson was named to the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major All-America team. This year the ‘Mid-Major’ is missing from the team name. “It is always great to see one of our players get recognized,” said Rider head coach Tommy Dempsey.
A 6’11” 250 pound senior forward, Thompson is the 2007-08 Preseason Player of the Year in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Thompson is the only player in Division I this season that averaged over 20 points and 10 rebounds per game last year.
CollegeInsider.com did not make a first or second team, just one All-America team consisting of 21 players, and a separate Mid-Major All-America team. Division I coaches and NBA scouts were part of the selection process, as well as the collegeinsider.com staff.
Players from North Carolina, UCLA, Texas, Memphis and Michigan State are grouped in with Rider on the Preseason All-America team.
Thompson will meet one member of the Preseason All-America team, Brandon Costner of North Carolina State, when Rider and the Wolf Pack meet Thanksgiving Day on ESPN2.
“Jason has done everything he was supposed to do since he arrived at Rider and this year he is determined to make his senior year a special season,” Dempsey said. “We are all extremely excited to get things started.”
The season begins at Murray State November 10, and the home opener is November 17 against Delaware.
Thompson enters his senior year with 1,346 career points, 11th highest ever at Rider, and 759 rebounds, sixth highest ever at Rider.
Earlier this month Thompson was named to the Collegehoops.net Preseason Mid-Major All-America Team
CollegeInsider.com Preseason All-America Team
D.J. Augustin G 6-0 So. Texas Chase Budinger F 6-7 So. Central Connecticut State Darren Collison G 6-1 Jr. UCLA Brandon Costner F 6-9 So. NC State Stephen Curry G 6-0 So. Davidson Chris Douglas-Roberts G/F 6-6 Jr. Memphis Jamont Gordon G/F 6-4 Jr. Mississippi State Tyler Hansbrough F 6-9 Jr. North Carolina Josh Heytvelt F 6-11 Jr. Gonzaga Roy Hibbert C 7-2 Sr. Georgetown Dominic James G 5-11 Jr. Marquette Ty Lawson G 5-11 So. North Carolina Chris Lofton G 6-2 Sr. Tennessee Eric Maynor G 6-2 Jr. VCU Drew Neitzel G 6-0 Sr. Michigan State Jeff Pendergraph F 6-9 Jr. Arizona State Brandon Rush G 6-6 Jr. Kansas Sean Singletary G 6-6 Sr. Virginia Jason Thompson F 6-11 Sr. Rider D.J. White F 6-9 Sr. Indiana Martin Zeno F 6-5 Sr. Texas Tech
