Former Western Kentucky men’s basketball guard Darius Thompson has inked his first professional contract, signing with Zorg en Zekerheid Basketball Leiden in the Netherlands. 

ZZ Leiden competes in the Dutch Basketball League. The team has won the national championship three times, the NBB Cup twice and the Dutch Basketball Supercup twice.

Thompson, a 6-foot-4 guard from Murfreesboro, Tenn., joined the Hilltoppers for the 2017-18 season as a graduate transfer from Virginia.

He left his mark on the program in just one year, starting all 38 games, averaging 35.6 minutes per contest and earning a spot on the All-Conference USA Second Team.

Thompson averaged 13.6 points, 4.8 assists and 4.2 rebounds for WKU, while netting a team-high 54 made 3-pointers. He was also named to the C-USA All-Tournament Team.

He set a new program record for most minutes played in a season with 1,354, tied for the most games started in a season in WKU history and finished with the fourth-most assists in a single season (181).

Thompson’s most memorable accomplishment came at Marshall on Jan. 6, when he recorded the second triple-double in Hilltopper history with 33 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.

Thompson is the second of WKU’s three outgoing seniors to sign a professional contract. Forward Justin Johnson has already signed with Italy’s Cagliari Dinamo Academy.