Larry Conley
George Larry Conley (born January 22, 1944 in Ashland, Kentucky) is a retired American professional basketball player.
A 6'3" guard, Conley played college basketball at the University of Kentucky under coach Adolph Rupp. During the 1965-66 season, Conley was a starter on a Kentucky team that also featured future Basketball Hall-of-Famers Pat Riley and Louie Dampier. The Wildcats lost the championship game of that season's NCAA Tournament 72-65 to Texas Western, this game was the center of the 2006 film Glory Road.
Conley played in the first Kentucky Colonels game of the American Basketball Association before committing to the army.[1] He currently broadcasts college basketball for Fox Sports, after previously performing the same role for ESPN, NBC, CBS, ABC, and Raycom Sports.[2]
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Final Four
- Basketball players from Kentucky
- College basketball announcers in the United States
- Kentucky Colonels players
- Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players
- Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
- Paul G. Blazer High School alumni
- Sportspeople from Ashland, Kentucky
- American men's basketball players
- American basketball biography, 1940s birth stubs
- Louisville, Kentucky stubs