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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Outside my father, he's probably the most influential male in my life. He's a special, special guy.
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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 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 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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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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It's not like we hang our hat on one or two guys. It's everybody getting involved. From Day One, we've talked about serving one another, building a chemistry, and they have done that.
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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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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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The beautiful thing about Michael Phillips is that I've never heard him complain. All that he has been through, never a complaint about anything. He's a champ. He's a joy.
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The next three months, I know I had to drive him nuts. Always the same questions. I look back and see how much patience he had, it was incredible. But that's what makes him such a special person.
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Outside of my father, he was probably the most influential male in my life.
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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 don't think either one of us liked ... the fact that somebody's season is going to be over after this game. But it is what it is. We don't control who we play in the NCAA tournament.
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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.