John Pelphrey
John Pelphrey
John Leslie Pelphreyis an American college basketball coach, currently an assistant at the University of Alabama. After being named Kentucky's "Mr. Basketball" in 1987, he became a star college player at the University of Kentucky...
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We play New Orleans, it's always a battle. I told our guys we can't look at the records in conference play...New Orleans has had a tough situation all year long and I am impressed with how hard they play.
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We had a tough day today. We played a better basketball team. Physically we had a tough time getting around them, a tough time getting to the hoop. We tried. We were courageous. We played hard. Florida was just better today.
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He went up over everybody and came down like, 'We're back.' It settled us.
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The problem with the NCAA tournament is it's just one of those things words sometimes don't do justice. You have to experience it.
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I sat there for the next three months.
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Our goal was to take the inside away and keep them from jamming it down our throats because they have such good post players. We did a good job of that in the first half. In the second half, it got away from us a little bit.
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Our turnaround this year was extremely dramatic, in turns of wins and losses. This is going to happen anytime you go through the building process.
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Outside of my father, he was probably the most influential male in my life.
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Outside my father, he's probably the most influential male in my life. He's a special, special guy.
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I think the NCAA has a funny sense of humor with regards to pairing us up with Florida.
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He'll be trying to rip our face off. All the friendship, all the love will be going out the window for those two hours.
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This was a great college basketball game tonight. Western Kentucky is one of the best teams in the Sun Belt and they made the last play to get the win.
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We have been working really hard here the past three years. We've had some hurdles like all rebuilding jobs. This year we have more players. We have more experienced players. The first-year guys we have signed are making contributions. We're kind of getting it from everywhere. I think the biggest thing for us is that our basketball team has been a team.
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I don't see it helping either side because I haven't been around their program for four years. I'd be shocked if he had any idea what we were doing or knew anything about our personnel before this week. If anything, we might have a slight advantage because we get to see them a lot on television. Our games aren't really televised that often.