Ernie Kent
Ernie Kent
Ernest "Ernie" Kent is an American college basketball coach. He is the head men's basketball coach at Washington State University. He is the former head men's basketball coach at the University of Oregon and at Saint Mary's College of California. Kent was previously an assistant at Stanford University and also coached abroad in Saudi Arabia. Kent was a college basketball commentator with the Pac-12 Network...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 January 1955
both conference move nights sides tight
With this conference as tight as it is, there are going to be nights when you've got to get lucky. I've been on both sides of it. We'll take it and move on.
game guys manage rest win
We wanted to win the game but wanted to manage the game as well. Certainly, when we were up 20, I wanted some of our guys to rest their legs. We had to manage the game.
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It certainly inspired African-Americans in college basketball and everything else. I don't want to say it opened up the door, but it certainly was a bridge to recruiting athletes of color. It definitely revolutionized the game.
battle good ready
That's going to be a good battle for us, and we'll be ready to go.
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There's a big part of me that didn't want to be the guy to beat Dick Bennett in his last game. There's part of me that wanted him to go out a winner that he is. He's a tremendous man. He's done so much for college basketball, and every program he's been in, he's improved the program. However, it was important for us to get the win and move forward.
move
This is the right move for him, and that's why I give him my blessing.
phenomenal score
He's had two back-to-back phenomenal games, to score like that and with no turnovers. I thought he was great.
move plus
For us, it's move forward. If he comes back it will be a plus for us.
agree
I agree to a point. They're all tough, that's the way I look at it.
basketball game send
We're only one game over .500, so I'm not going to send those expectations out of the roof. There's a lot of basketball left; let's just keep getting better game by game.
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We've got to win games. We've got to get off to a good start whether we're at home or on the road. But for us, the way we've been playing, it's a good thing to open at home.
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If you look at his face and his demeanor, he looks 24 or 25. Then you remember he is only 18. There will be a time when he takes over an entire game, but he is not quite there yet.
comfort reached together
He's reached that comfort zone. It's just all come together for him now.
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If ever a team needed a win, it was certainly this basketball team.