La Salle University president Daniel Allen went back Monday afternoon to the old saying of athletics being the “front porch” to a university when he made a colloquial edit befit of the local vernacular.

In stints at Penn, Temple and La Salle, the coach built a basketball legacy by always putting others first. Fran Dunphy walked down the ramp inside University of Dayton Arena in March 2019, answering questions about his final game as the coach at Temple, an NCAA tournament loss to Belmont.

Fran Dunphy became the 34th head coach in Division I history to reach 1,000 games coached on Wednesday night before his retirement at the end of the year at La Salle.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Philadelphia basketball legend will be feeling the love. LaSalle University will honor men's basketball coach Fran Dunphy ahead of his team's final home game on Wednesday night. He is retiring as the all-time winningest coach in Big 5 history.

Dunphy, a fixture of Philadelphia basketball for decades as the head coach for Penn, Temple, and then La Salle, is calling it a career.

Coach Fran Dunphy, known as “Mr. Big Five," is heading for retirement, but not before coaching one thousand games.

The 76-year-old Dunphy will become special assistant to the president at La Salle. He will be honored as part of the Explorers' game against Duquesne on Feb. 26.