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When you know every game could be your very last college basketball game — or another step towards that “natty” you’re chasing — a little pain isn’t going to stop you. Then again, University of Houston forward Fabian White Jr. a…
Read MoreKelvin Sampson’s University of Houston basketball program is back in the Sweet 16 for the third straight NCAA Tournament, one of only three programs in America that can make that claim. Gonzaga and Michigan are the only other schools to make the …
Read MorePITTSBURGH — Kelvin Sampson holds Fabian White Jr. in an extra long hug, but the University of Houston coach is only started getting dancing on this sweetest of NCAA Tournament days. Soon Sampson is ripping off his red polo shirt in the locker room as …
Read MorePITTSBURGH — As Jamal Shead heads for the sideline, University of Houston coach Kelvin Sampson pulls him into an embrace. Sampson pounds on the young point guard’s chest, a hearty emphasis on a job well done. Fabian White Jr. just beat Shead to t…
Read MorePITTSBURGH — It started on Christmas night, just two shorts days after those inside the University of Houston basketball program found out that Marcus Sasser, the team’s best player, was down and out for the foreseeable future with a broken foot….
Read MorePITTSBURGH — Not many people probably realize that Taze Moore is the only member of the University of Houston starting five who did make any of the all-conference teams. But Moore knows. He digested the news — and has been using it as fuel ever since. …
Read MoreFORT WORTH — Kelvin Sampson and his players are barely in their seats in the Goodnight Room of Dickies Arena when Houston is flashing on the screen as a fifth seed in the South Region. There isn’t much reaction from a group that just came up from…
Read MoreFORT WORTH — Marcus Sasser breaks into a grin when asked if he’s still pushing to try and come back this season. The injured star guard’s been quietly doing that behind the scenes for months — even before he ever got his walking boot off. A…
Read MoreFORT WORTH — By the second half, Quannas White knows it’s on. Kyler Edwards is locked in and teams have something else to fear from this rebuilt-on-the-fly University of Houston basketball team. No one works more closely with Edwards than White o…
Read MoreFORT WORTH — Kendric Davis heads down a largely empty back hallway of Dickies Arena, one lone SMU official in a sports coat at his side. The games are over for the night — and one of the best college basketball players in the country is heading to the …
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