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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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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He went up over everybody and came down like, 'We're back.' It settled us.
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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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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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I'll never forget that day. Before we had our game day practice, Mike comes bouncing into my office. He said, 'Coach, my mom's coming to the game tonight.' He said, 'You don't understand, Coach. This is the first time she's ever seen me play.
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I know everybody likes to make it out that you get judged by your success in the NCAA tournament. He's had some success. He will have that again. I hope it's not (Thursday).
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I never dreamed that Rich (Law) would be able to play as long as he did and as well as he did, it was great.
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I'm thankful the good Lord has put him here.
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I felt very confident and we threw a couple more guys out there and they turned things back around and more players came in and took it even farther.
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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.