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 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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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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I told Billy after the game that they were 26 points better than us -- if not more. They are a very good team.
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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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They have the ability to compete with anyone in the country. It's hard to compare them to the 2000 team. They are better in one sense, they won more games in the regular season. But that team really didn't get hot until the buzzer-beater against Butler.
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They are outstanding, the best we have played so far in terms of those guards and their shooters. It was not one of our better efforts just in terms of executing the game plan. I think Tennessee had a lot to do with that.
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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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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 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.
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We tried; we were courageous. Florida was just better than us.
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People don't know how much we missed him. He gives us incredible leadership. Academically, he has it figured out. He's not any smarter, just more organized.
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Billy was better than half of the team.
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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.