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...
coach combine good jeff jerry staff team thrilled
I am really thrilled to have Rob, Jerry and Jeff as part of our staff. When you combine them with Coach McCallum and Coach Meyer, our staff is as good as any team in the country.
coaches fuel game kids needs team
This team desperately needs leadership. Coaches can fuel practice, but come game time, you've got to have kids that are more vocal, with more fire.
coaches hope indiana love program programs truly turn
I truly love Oklahoma, but Indiana is a program that all coaches hope to coach at one day. Once they offered, it was just one of those programs that I couldn't turn down.
coach everybody family oklahoma respect state thoughts
I think everybody has so much respect for coach Sutton. When something like that happens, we all feel our own mortality. He and the Oklahoma State family are in our thoughts and prayers.
behind coach group incredible kids left talked
I think I talked to a group of kids that desperately want a coach and need a coach right now. I need them right now because I left behind an incredible group of kids (at Oklahoma), and I think they need me, too.
against coached eddie hope mean next
I hope he's back next year. I mean this sincerely. I've never coached against a better coach than Eddie Sutton.
applied coaches good head jimmy knew people recruit watching workers
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.
automatic basketball best coach coaches great high indiana places players school sees special state tremendous word
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.
dice roll
We just had to roll the dice and keep Terrell in there.
boards extra gave happen kicked
We just gave them too many extra possessions. They kicked out butts on the boards and that doesn't happen very often.
best game knew lost shooting
We lost a one-point game and a two-point game without our best shooter. I knew when we got him back we'd be a lot better shooting team.
clock good shot sign
We had them at the end of the shot clock a lot tonight, but Jackson, he just made big plays. That's the sign of a good player.
great job running second
The second half, we did a great job of running our stuff. We had great movement, we set great screens.
front gets guy points strength team
The strength of the team is up front now. But we don't have a guy who you know can give you points when the going gets tough.