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 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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I don't think either one of us like the fact that someone's season is going to be over after this thing. I do know one thing about Billy. He's going to be trying to rip our face off. All the friendship, all the love and all that is going out the window for those two hours. It's going to be very, very competitive.
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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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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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It's an issue. We've got to find a way to deal with it.
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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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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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I think the NCAA has a funny sense of humor with regards to pairing us up with Florida.
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We play New Orleans, it's always a battle. I told our guys we can't look at the records in conference play...New Orleans has had a tough situation all year long and I am impressed with how hard they play.
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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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It's amazing that we're playing each other. I think we would have been an 11 or 12 seed, but the NCAA wanted to match us up. I think that had a lot to do with it.