While most of the of the college basketball coaching community was either asleep or glued to opponent game films at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, Chattanooga State coach Jay Price was doing laundry. His Tigers’ laundry. Both men and women.
“This isn’t like Tennessee, where they had somebody to do everything for you,” said Price, who played for the Vols in the early 1990s. “If I don’t do it, it won’t get done.”
That overall attitude propelled both squads to the National Junior College Athletic Association tournaments in Kansas for the first time ever.
Only trouble was, the men were in Hutchinson, the women in Salinas, more than an hour away.
So Price – who coaches both squads – has been busy traveling back and forth between the two communities to direct both practices and games. Alas, he couldn’t keep either team from losing on Wednesday.