A week beyond his 750th career victory, Joe Foley demurred his grand introduction at the Downtown Tip Off Club luncheon Monday afternoon in Little Rock.
He is the four-time Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year who led the University of Arkansas at Little Rock women's basketball program to its first 20-victory season in 2006, its first NIT Tournament in 2007 and its first NCAA Tournament in 2010.
"You go back over all that and we'll be done," Foley said, the crowd laughing in the conference hall at the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel in North Little Rock.
Before the hundreds of victories, Foley said, there was a trailer next to the Oxford High School gymnasium, where he'd stay late into the night coaching all the levels of basketball from 1979-1981.