Mike Phillips, who formed the “Twin Towers” with Rick Robey on the Kentucky basketball team that won the 1978 N.C.A.A. title, died on Saturday at his home in Madisonville, Ky. He was 59.
Barnett-Strother Funeral Home confirmed Phillips’s death. The Hopkins County coroner’s office told WFIE-TV that he died after a fall.
Phillips, 6 feet 10 inches tall, played alongside the 6-11 Robey on the Kentucky team, coached by Joe B. Hall, that went 30-2 in 1978 and beat Duke in the N.C.A.A. final in St. Louis behind Jack Givens’s 41 points. It was Kentucky’s first championship in 20 years.