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MEMPHIS — The night before Senior Day is a sacred tradition in a Kelvin Sampson program. Everyone gathers at the Sampsons’ house and shares their memories, only team personnel allowed. The memories are often heartfelt, sometimes funny. And every …
Read MoreMEMPHIS — Ramon Walker Jr. expects the tears to come when he gets back to the Peabody hotel where the University of Houston basketball team is staying. Walker’s mom Sharanda and dad Ramon are waiting for him there, eager to grab a moment after No…
Read MoreMEMPHIS — Some 6,542 miles away from this NCAA Tournament site, in the Israeli coastal city of Haifa, Derrick Sharp Jr. will sit down to watch his little brother Emanuel Sharp play for the University of Houston in the Big Dance at around 3:30 am in the…
Read MoreWhen Drake starts coming down the stairs of The Post Oak Hotel’s presidential suite to join the University of Houston’s NCAA Tournament Selection Show watch party turned NIL event, it becomes apparent that Kelvin Sampson’s gritty work…
Read MoreKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Iowa State is still celebrating on the floor, with even coach T.J. Otzelberger throwing some confetti in the air, when Kelvin Sampson’s University of Houston team starts hustling out of the arena. “Samps is ready to go. I…
Read MoreKANSAS CITY, Mo. — The needle is the worst. The big needle that needs to be stuck in J’Wan Roberts’ right knee to drain it out just about every single week now is what is allowing the University of Houston basketball team’s heart and …
Read MoreKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ja’Vier Francis is like a mystical horror movie creature that appears in the main characters’ dreams. You can never escape him — even when he’s not really there. Jamie Dixon’s TCU team felt the University of H…
Read MoreKANSAS CITY — A coach’s wife always knows. Karen Sampson can tell that winning this Big 12 regular season championship, one of the most difficult and grueling championships you can win in college sports, means something extra to her husband — Uni…
Read MoreOn the night his son Jamal Shead wins Big 12 Player of the Year, Elvin Shead finds himself thinking back to when it all started, when University of Houston assistant Kellen Sampson became the first coach from a major college to start recruiting Jamal. …
Read MoreLooking around the squeezed-in packed Fertitta Center, a place where you’ll find less elbow room than you get on a Spirit Airlines flight on this day, feeling the excitement of what’s about to happen pulsating through another new record cro…
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