University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire is a public institution that was founded in 1916. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 9,894, its setting is city, and the campus size is 337 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar.
David O'Neil Thompson is an American retired professional basketball player. He played with the Denver Nuggets of both the American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association, as well as the Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA. He was previously a star in college for North Carolina State, leading the Wolfpack to its first NCAA championship in 1974. Thompson is one of the six players to score 70 or more points in an NBA game.
Thompson was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player on May 6, 1996. Thompson eventually returned to school at North Carolina State, and in 2003 nearly 30 years after his last game for the Wolfpack he finished his degree in sociology. In 2004 David helped make a movie about his life called Skywalker.