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 are very excited about Charles and Philip coming to South Alabama. They are outstanding people and students who have a world of basketball potential...We certainly look forward to both of them making contributions to helping our team as freshmen.
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I feel very fortunate to win the award. There are some great coaches in this league...Basketball is a team game and any award that I win is a direct reflection on how hard our team works.
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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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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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They have the components to kill people in every single basketball game they are going to play in. They have the ability to compete against anybody in the country.
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They have the components to compete in every single basketball game they're going to play in. It's just that time of year. You've got to play well. But they have the ability to compete with anybody in the country.
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Everyone contributed tonight as a team and I couldn't be more proud of how our guys competed tonight. It was a hard fought physical basketball game tonight and our guys found a way to dig it out.
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This is a basketball team that had our number last year. I am very proud of our team. FIU is one of the most physical teams in our league and it showed tonight.
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We knew that we were going to be one of the top two or three teams in the league. At least we felt like that. We certainly had a confidence level coming in.
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We understood what we wanted to do in the first half. Especially on offense. We found our pace, worked the ball around and got some really clean looks.
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This one here, from start to finish, our kids just played as well as they could possibly play. From a defensive side, Western Kentucky is unbelievable offensively. To hold them to 33 percent for the game, that is the best of the year for us.