Fran Dunphy
Fran Dunphy
Francis Joseph DunphyOctober 5, 1948) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at Temple University. He succeeded John Chaney in 2006...
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We went to Duke this year as decided underdogs. Our job is to prepare our guys; we watched a number of segments of film.
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I wish my job was that easy. The biggest quality of the Texas team is their balance, not just a few players.
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It's weighing on a lot of peoples' minds up at Cornell. I know coach Donahue is struggling with it, but I think he's doing a good job of trying to go on.
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It was critical for us. I thought our guys did a good job early on, but you know they are going to make a run.
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He's just a good basketball player, and the opportunity presented itself and he's done a good job with his opportunity. All you want from your young guys when they're given that chance is to play their very best. It looks like he's really stepped his game up.
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For the most part, I was very proud of our effort. Before the game, we talked a little bit about having tremendous respect for this program, but we couldn't let that become a fear factor. I thought our guys did a pretty good job of understanding that concept.
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All I could think of was, I can't believe he's leaving this place. And I remember thinking that whoever takes this job and follows him has to be a little crazy.
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We just needed to close out the last 20 minutes and play it very much like the first 20 minutes.
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The Yale guys really turned up the screws defensively. We needed to be more patient. We needed to be exact in what we were doing.
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Sometimes it's contagious; you make them and everybody makes them.
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Everybody stepped up. That's what it would take to win a game like this.
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That's two real good wins for us, there's no question. We feel very fortunate to have won both games.
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I wish that was the only problem we had.
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I think our shots were timely tonight. That's what you have to do to win a tough game like this on the road against a good team. You've got to be timely.