PHILADELPHIA-- Fran Dunphy has been around the Philadelphia college basketball scene his entire life.
As a kid growing up in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, he was a CYO three-sport prodigy who used to be a regular at the fabled Palestra, watching Temple, Saint Joseph's, Villanova, Penn and La Salle play in Big 5 doubleheaders every Wednesday and Saturday night. He was a local high school star at Malvern Prep, a member of the 1969 LaSalle team that had four pros and was ranked second in the country. Then, he went on to become the only man to coach two different Division I schools in the city – first Penn and, for the last 10 years, Temple.