Thornton made an immediate and noisy splash in his unofficial debut for the LSU men’s basketball team over Labor Day Weekend. The 6-foot-4, 190-pound transfer from Kilgore (Texas) College hung up scoring totals of 30, 19 and 29 points in three Tiger victories, burying 11-of-25 3-point field-goal attempts. Freshman forward Anthony Randolph was the only LSU player who grabbed more rebounds than Thornton’s 19.