Houston's Kelvin Sampson has been named AP's coach of the year. He edged UConn's Dan Hurley to claim the award he previously won 29 years ago at Oklahoma.
"They were up 30," Longwood coach Griff Aldrich recalled,"and I thought DA barely got the shot off. And Sampson's screaming at Wilson like that's an emergency. 'Get out there!' It's like, damn. I thought he was out there."
Themes of accountability, consistency and hard work at Houston can be traced to Sampson's upbringing in North Carolina. "I didn't realize what latchkey kids were until I started reading about it. 'Hey, I was one of those!'" said Sampson, who often came home from school to find an empty house."Back then, that's how it was. You got up and you went to work.
"When you go through stuff like that at 5:45, 6 in the morning," Sampson said,"you learn to respect the guy beside you."It had made one NCAA tournament in 22 years before his 2014 arrival, and those heady days of Lewis and Phi Slama Jama had become a distant memory. Sampson's first season was rough, too. The Cougars went 13-19, winning just four American Athletic Conference games, and some wondered whether he could still win in college after six years in the NBA.
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