After Kentucky beat Pikeville College Wednesday night, Joe Crawford noted how unusual it was for the team to go through a hard game-of-day practice that afternoon.
Gillispie favored hard practices on game days at UTEP and Texas A&M. The UK coach shrugged off the possibility of wear and tear in a long season. He prefers to go hard in each workout to establish all-out as the only way to play on the court.
“It definitely was a change for me,” Crawford said of the hard practice yesterday. “But his way works. We just have to follow him.”
Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald- Leader has covered Kentucky basketball since the 1981-82 season. That time includes five coaches, five Final Fours, four athletic directors, two interim athletic directors and many memories. Before coming to Lexington, Tipton worked eight years for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. He covered Marshall’s basketball team for two seasons before coming to the Herald-Leader.
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