The Houston Cougars entered the 2025 NCAA national championship game for the first time since reaching the final in the 1983-1984 season. Under the direction of their head coach, Kelvin Sampson, the ...

University of Houston men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson has shaped a program defined by grit, humility, and connection.

SAN ANTONIO – Roughly five years ago, somewhere between nothing and everything, Fran Fraschilla asked Kelvin ... since Sampson was let go at Indiana, after less than two years coaching the ...

the coaching staff doesn’t have to bring them up to speed with the program’s culture, values and how things are run. Sampson relies on players who’ve been with him for years like Emanuel ...

Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson joins Colin Cowherd to discuss changing the Cougars' culture, along with how ... his six NBA seasons influenced his coaching, along with how he views and handles ...

REQUIRED READING: Kelvin Sampson's old-school Houston ... Bucks at the time of the announced sanctions. Sampson joined the Houston Rockets coaching staff under head coach Kevin McHale in 2011.

Houston has made seven consecutive NCAA Tournaments, all under the tutelage of Kelvin Sampson. He took over as the Cougars' head coach in 2014. This was his fifth head coaching gig and his first ...

Kelvin Sampson sat close ... But Houston’s superpower is its culture, an environment of loyalty and commitment. “We’re not real fancy,” Sampson said. “We don’t have all the bells ...

Houston coach Kelvin Sampson and Florida coach Todd Golden made the same decision on the sidelines for the NCAA men's basketball national championship game on Monday. The two coaches had entirely ...

“My connections to my culture to coaching is being Lumbee,” Kelvin told NDN Sports ... It seems we had six names: Sampson, Lowery, Chavis, Oxendine, Jacobs, and Locklear.