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They defeated second-seeded Tennessee in the Elite Eight round and then toppled Duke, a team many picked to win it all, in ...
Houston secured the second spot in the NCAA men's tournament title game with a furious rally to defeat Duke. The Cougars will face Florida on Monday.
Houston basketball coach Kelvin Sampson still has fond memories of his days coaching at Oklahoma. On Thursday afternoon, ...
Kelvin Sampson’s Houston Cougars trailed Duke by 14 points with 8:03 left in the game and by seven points with 75 seconds left in the NCAA semifinals Saturday night. But you’d have to reverse ...
They instead rallied and went on a 9-0 run over the final 35 seconds of the game to ultimately win 70-67, in what has now been deemed a massive collapse by Duke. "I hear what people say," Sampson ...
“Never once did I feel we were going to blow Houston out,” Duke Coach Jon Scheyer said. Sampson, who could yell a brick wall into submission, stayed cool this time. After the Cougars narrowed ...
Duke's length was a big reason it advanced to the Final Four, and now the Blue Devils have added more to the back court ...
Duke flamed out Saturday night, wilting under the pressure Sampson’s teams are guaranteed to impose, yet another San Antonio scandal on the scale of Roy Williams and his Kansas sticker 17 years ago.
It looked like Houston was dead in the water on several occasions, but head coach Kelvin Sampson ensured that was not the case ahead of the National Championship Game. Duke controlled the action ...
"There's no such thing as a dagger shot when there's eight minutes to go," Sampson said after the win. Even when Houston was down seven with 1:25 left, Duke didn't pile enough dirt on the Cougars ...
The game was won, we beat Duke, all right, onto the next one.” Monday night is 11 years in the making. In 2014, Sampson arrived at Houston, inheriting a program that hadn’t advanced in the ...
Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson watches during the first half against the Duke in the national semifinals at the Final Four of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, April 5 ...