Ernie Kent

Ernie Kent
Ernest "Ernie" Kent is an American college basketball coach. He is the head men's basketball coach at Washington State University. He is the former head men's basketball coach at the University of Oregon and at Saint Mary's College of California. Kent was previously an assistant at Stanford University and also coached abroad in Saudi Arabia. Kent was a college basketball commentator with the Pac-12 Network...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 January 1955
four home matter middle protect schedule season stanford straight teams turns undefeated win
I don't think it's make or break, but we want to play well. If it's four straight or two straight, you want to protect your home court. Stanford and us are the only teams to be undefeated at home, and we want to keep it that way. The schedule turns in our favor. It doesn't matter if it's at home in the middle of the season or late, you want to win at home.
area basketball bay came grow home protect team though
Even though we came up empty-handed on this Bay Area trip, we actually got better as a basketball team. If we can grow from what we accomplished down here, come back home and protect our home court, we'll be a different team going out on the road.
phenomenal score
He's had two back-to-back phenomenal games, to score like that and with no turnovers. I thought he was great.
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It certainly inspired African-Americans in college basketball and everything else. I don't want to say it opened up the door, but it certainly was a bridge to recruiting athletes of color. It definitely revolutionized the game.
comfort reached together
He's reached that comfort zone. It's just all come together for him now.
running seem settled style
If I had my way, this would be a running program. For right now, for this team, we seem to have settled into a style of play that's working for us.
continue meet talk
I told them to continue to meet and talk as much as they like if they play like that.
gifted perspective wants
But from the perspective of a dad, I soul-searched and said to myself, here was someone who's very gifted and wants to try something.
move
This is the right move for him, and that's why I give him my blessing.
glue guy missed quite
Quite frankly, we really missed him. We missed his energy, his toughness, his defense, his hustle. He's a glue guy for us.
battle good ready
That's going to be a good battle for us, and we'll be ready to go.
five four gives help
It's day to day. If he's able to play, we'll use him in spurts of four or five minutes. ... Any help he gives us is a plus.
beat bennett college guy improved last move program tremendous winner
There's a big part of me that didn't want to be the guy to beat Dick Bennett in his last game. There's part of me that wanted him to go out a winner that he is. He's a tremendous man. He's done so much for college basketball, and every program he's been in, he's improved the program. However, it was important for us to get the win and move forward.
agree
I agree to a point. They're all tough, that's the way I look at it.