Ahead of Monday night's national title game, Houston Cougars head coach Kelvin Sampson offered some major praise to one of the players his team will be hoping to shut down. During a pregame ...

A five-year show-cause penalty against Sampson from his time at Oklahoma and Indiana has come back and benefited the Cougars, as the program plays for its first national championship against No. 1 ...

For the better part of 40 minutes Monday night, an elusive championship was in Houston's and head coach Kelvin Sampson's grasp. A victory would have have marked a breakthrough for a program and a ...

Kelvin Sampson has evolved from winning cheater at Oklahoma and Indiana to sympathetic loser at Houston. Or maybe it's the rest of us who have evolved. Sampson's NCAA violations hurt Oklahoma and ...

But at his core, he is the son of Robeson County high school teaching and coaching legend John "Ned" Sampson, who once fought off the Ku Klux Klan in the Battle of Hayes Pond in 1958 when Kelvin ...

Florida, for its part, had gone 0-of-5. In a courtside interview with Tracy Wolfson, Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson explained that both teams playing with nerves was likely the reason for the ...

Never heard of Sasquatch State? You're not alone because it seems that Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson made it up on the fly. "It's nerves. It's championship night. This isn't the middle of ...

SAN ANTONIO — In late October, Kelvin Sampson sat down on his couch in his office and the phone rang. It was a buddy who used to sell insurance and served as Sampson’s volunteer assistant at ...

The cover of the post read "Championship Bound," with pictures of senior guard L.J. Cryer, senior forward J'Wan Robert and freshman center Jacob McFarland, along with coach Kelvin Sampson in the ...

Houston Cougars head coach Kelvin Sampson had an amazing quote during a first half interview of the NCAA men's national championship game on Monday. When asked why his team had a slow start on ...

Yet Kelvin Sampson, 39 games into his 36th season as ... When that effort is augmented with elite athleticism—and, in recent years, high-level offensive skill—Houston culture is a tough ...

"I'm just going through those last two possessions," Sampson said, per Jordan Mendoza of USA Today. "Incomprehensible in that situation, we couldn't get a shot. Gotta get a shot." "We didn't score ...