Morehead State Basketball Coach Preston Spradlin on basketball success and coaching for a greater purpose
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Preston Spradlin is the men's head basketball coach for Morehead State. In 2021, he led the Eagle program to prominence winning the program's first Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship in 10 years and leading his club to the NCAA Tournament with a 23-8 record. He was named OVC Coach of the Year.
Spradlin joined Morehead State in 2014 as an assistant coach and became the head coach in 2016. Prior to his time with the Eagles, he spent 5 seasons with the University of Kentucky basketball program and head coach John Calipari. He spent two campaigns (2009-11) as a graduate assistant with the Wildcats before three years as the assistant director of operations (2011-14). His duties included film breakdown, creating and maintaining playbooks, assisting with opponent scouting and day-to-day operations.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Preston about his historical 2021 season, his testimony of faith in Jesus, how Christ guides him as a coach, coming to work with Kentucky and the impact John Calipari has had on his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode with Preston Spradlin from Moorhead State, the men's basketball coach there in Kentucky, |
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| 1:16.5 | Thank you. Stadium.com. Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 1:21.3 | Here's your host, former ESPN producer Jason Romano. |
| 1:25.3 | Hey guys, welcome to the show. |
| 1:26.8 | I am Jason. |
| 1:27.6 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
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