Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Matthew Sampsonis an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Houston Cougars men's basketball team. He was a head coach at Montana Tech from 1981 to 1985, Washington State University from 1987 to 1994, the University of Oklahoma from 1994 to 2006, and Indiana University 2006 to 2008. He has also been an assistant coach for several NBA teams including the Milwaukee Bucks and Houston Rockets...
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I'm happy with the win, but disappointed with the effort.
answer deserved iowa state
Iowa State deserved to win. They out-played us for 39 minutes. We had no answer for Blalock and Stinson.
deserved iowa state
Iowa State deserved to win. They outplayed us for 39 minutes.
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I haven't seen anybody slow Texas down in Austin. You can beat Texas away from Austin. But in that gym, they're like everybody else in our league.
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I really didn't know Jimmy when he applied for the job. I knew he was a worker, a good recruiter and a good people person just from watching him recruit over the summer. The head coaches know who all the workers are.
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If you told me before the game we would have a 29-20 rebound advantage and shoot 54 percent (28-for-52), I thought we would have won. It felt like they shot 105 percent.
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I don't know if it could work out any better, but we had 17 offensive rebounds tonight. We're the No. 1 rebounding team in the nation and tonight it helped us.
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He's learned how to play under control. Early in the year, I didn't know what he was going to do. But now he's just playing at a nice pace. He doesn't get too ahead of himself.
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I'm proud of my guys for hanging in there. I leave here encouraged, playing in this environment, with that group of guards.
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Indiana is one of those special places where you say 'basketball', and Indiana is an automatic word association. Every coach sees it as a great basketball state with tremendous high school coaches and players, and we will do our best to keep those players in the state.
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From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.
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K-State is a dangerous team. Those are the kind of teams you don't want to see in the tournament.
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Brandon Rush is not just one of the best freshmen in the league, he's one of the best players.
basketball team philosophy
Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.