Sean Woods

Education

Woods attended Cathedral High School in Indianapolis before playing college basketball at the University of Kentucky.

Career

The Unforgettables were coached by Rick Pitino and included fellow seniors Richie Farmer, Deron Feldhaus, and John Pelphrey. The team surprised many by garnering a #2 seed and reaching the Elite Eight in the 1992 National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. Woods and the Wildcats defeated Old Dominion, Iowa State, and the University of Massachusetts en route to the regional final.

With a 29–6 record, the Wildcats faced off against Duke at the Spectrum in Philadelphia with a trip to the Final Four on the line.

In the finals against Duke, Woods cemented a legendary status in Kentucky lore by scoring 21 points, including a 10-foot (30 m) floater over Christian Laettner in overtime. The basket gave Kentucky a 103–102 lead with 2.1 seconds remaining.

However, the Unforgettables lost the game on Laettner"s subsequent jumper as time expired. After Woods graduated, he was added to the National Basketball Association"s Indiana Pacers preseason roster but did not make the team

He then ran a popular basketball camp, which polished future basketball players such as Tony Delk and Antoine Walker (both of whom had played at Kentucky).

He was an assistant coach at High Point University before he moved to Texas Agricultural and Mechanical-Corpus Christi, also as an assistant. Immediately following the Duke loss, every Kentucky senior"s jersey (though not their numbers) was retired. Woods is currently fifth all-time on Kentucky"s career assist list, with 482.

On June 24, 2008, Woods became the head coach of the Mississippi Valley State University men"s basketball team

The team lost in the First Four round. On May 14, 2012, Woods was announced as head coach at Morehead State University, taking over for Donnie Tyndall.

Achievements

• In 2012, Woods"s last year there, the Delta Devils won the Southwestern Athletic Conference regular season and conference tournament, qualifying for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament. Woods was chosen as the 2012 winner of the Ben Jobe Award, given annual;y to the most outstanding minority men"s college basketball head coach in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I competition.

Membership

As a Wildcat in 1992, he was a member of a senior-laden team colloquially known as the "Unforgettables" who had come to Kentucky in 1988 and had stayed with the school for all four years, despite the National Collegiate Athletic Association putting the university"s basketball program on probation for three years, including a ban on post-season competition in both 1990 and 1991, for recruiting and academic violations in 1989. In 2005, Woods became a charter member of the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the Unforgettables.