HIGH POINT—Former High Point University men's basketball forward Tarique Thompson has signed his first professional contract with Herzoge Wolfenbuttel for the 2017-18 season.
 
Herzoge Wolfenbuttel is in the ProB league in Germany and is the farm team to the Lowen Braunschweig club in the Basketball Bundesliga, the top league in Germany.
 
"I am so happy for Tarique that he will be able to continue his basketball career as a professional overseas," HPU head coach Scott Cherry said. "He has a great opportunity with this German team to advance his career quickly. I hope he has a long and successful future playing the game he loves and learning foreign cultures."
 
In 2016-17, Thompson set career highs for points (10.0 per game), rebounds (5.2 per game), blocks (17) and steals (26), all while coming off the bench in a career-high 23.7 minutes per contest. He posted three double-doubles. For his career, Thompson shot 52 percent from the field and 75 percent from the free throw line.
 
Thompson is the fourth Panther to sign a professional contract this summer, joining Adam Weary ('16 – Bristol Flyers – England), Miles Bowman Jr. (MBK Rieker COM-therm Komarno – Slovakia) and John Brown ('16), who signed with De' Longhi Treviso for his second pro contract in Italy.
 
Other recent Panther pros under Cherry include: Eugene Harris ('10 – KTE-Duna Aszfalt – Hungary), Tehran Cox ('11 – Libya), Corey Law ('12 – Harlem Globetrotters), Nick Barbour ('12 – Texas Legends – NBA D-League), Devante Wallace ('15 – WBC Raiffeisen Wels – Austria) and Lorenzo Cugini ('16 – Omnia Basket Lungavilla Pavia – Italy).