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
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Nobody will think about it at all. But from where it came from to get to this point is just incredible to me.
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Between him and Ivan, they've been pretty productive down there. With us, the way we've been playing, we've just got to go to the people who are consistent regardless what size they are. (Adam) and Ivan Johnson have both given us a real a solid five man at the spot.
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Even though we came up empty-handed on this Bay Area trip, we actually got better as a basketball team. If we can grow from what we accomplished down here, come back home and protect our home court, we'll be a different team going out on the road.
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We were focused on locking down their guards. Our bigger focus was to shut down their guards.
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We are certainly looking forward to it. We are going to work hard these next couple days. It's going to be about who wants it more in that environment with two teams going down there with not a lot of fans in the building and playing in neutral court. For us right now, it's one game at a time. We know we have Washington State and that's going to be a battle for us.
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I would expect both of those kids to help us. To what extent, I won't know until we get them here.
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But from the perspective of a dad, I soul-searched and said to myself, here was someone who's very gifted and wants to try something.
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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.
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I don't think it's make or break, but we want to play well. If it's four straight or two straight, you want to protect your home court. Stanford and us are the only teams to be undefeated at home, and we want to keep it that way. The schedule turns in our favor. It doesn't matter if it's at home in the middle of the season or late, you want to win at home.
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For us, it's move forward. If he comes back it will be a plus for us.
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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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He's had two back-to-back phenomenal games, to score like that and with no turnovers. I thought he was great.
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I agree to a point. They're all tough, that's the way I look at it.