Sean Woods

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Sean Woods is a former basketball player, currently serving as an assistant coach at TCU.

Woods played college basketball at Kentucky. As a Wildcat in 1992, he was a member of a senior-laden team colloquially known as the "Unforgettables" who had come to Kentucky in 1988 and had stayed with the school all four years despite a major scandal that put Kentucky on NCAA probation until the 1992 season, in which they were allowed to participate in postseason play again.

The Unforgettables, coached by Rick Pitino and also including fellow seniors Richie Farmer, Deron Feldhaus, and John Pelphrey, surprised many by garnering a #2 seed and reaching the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament that year. Woods and the Wildcats defeated Old Dominion, Iowa State and UMass en route to the regional final. With a 29-6 record, the Wildcats faced off against Duke in the Spectrum with a trip to the Final Four on the line.

In that game against Duke, often cited as the greatest college basketball game of all time, Woods cemented a legendary status in Kentucky lore by pouring in 21 points, none more important than a 10-foot floater over Christian Laettner that bounced off the backboard and dropped into the basket in overtime. The basket gave Kentucky a 103-102 lead with 2.1 seconds remaining. Unfortunately for Woods, the Unforgettables would lose the game on Laettner's subsequent jumper as time expired.

Woods went to the NBA and played for the Indiana Pacers. He ran a popular basketball camp during his time in the NBA, which polished future players such as Tony Delk and Antoine Walker (both of whom played at Kentucky). He was an assistant coach at High Point University before he came to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, also as an assistant.

In 2005, Woods became a charter member of the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the Unforgettables. Immediately following the Duke loss, every Kentucky senior's jersey (though not their numbers) was retired. Woods is currently fifth all-time on Kentucky's career assist list, with 482. He is married and has two children. His son Martiese Morones, a high school point guard in Kentucky, was signed by TCU for the 2006-07 season. Woods would join the TCU staff shortly afterwards.[1][2]