Missouri Southern State University Athletics

John Thomas played basketball for Missouri Southern from 1969-73. At the time of his induction, he was fourth all-time on the career scoring list with 1,770 points and was the Lions all-time leading rebounder with 1,536 career boards. He had three of the top-five single-game rebounding totals in Southern history and had the top three single-season rebounding averages in Lions history.