I just watched Kelvin’s Houston team rout the poser Fighting Illini. This will be Houston’s third straight trip to the Sweet 16.
Here’s a trivia question for you. Who are the two most winning DI programs in DI the past six years?
The answer would be… 1 Gonzaga, 2 Houston.
Kelvin while at OU took two different teams to the Elite 8 and one team to the Final Four. I hated when he left to take the Indiana job, but I get it. He wanted to be at a school which was a basketball first school.
Since Billy Tubbs, four different OU coaches have taken a team to the Elite 8 and three different coaches have taken an OU team to the Final Four. The Final Four coaches were Billy Tubbs, Kelvin Sampson, and Lon Kruger, while Jeff Capel took the Blake Griffin team to an Elite 8.
Billy had a National Player of the Year runner-up in Wayman Tisdale. Kelvin never had a POTY status player. Jeff Capel had a NPOTY in Blake Griffin. While during Lon Kruger’s ten year stay in Norman, he had two NPOTY winners in Buddy Hield and Trae Young.
The recruiting class threesome Porter has coming next season should be OU’s best class since the 2018 season.
Porter has ESPN’s No. 1 international prospect committed, while the other players are both Top 75 national players per ESPN.
This was a transition year in Norman and yet Porter in essence had this team in the NCAA Tournament last Saturday night until they were nudged out of the bracket by two game results last Sunday.
Here’s Porter above showing why he’s considered one of the best coaches in the nation.
We don’t pout when things don’t our way. Instead, we pull ourselves up and compete. That’s what life is…day in and day out.
My cousin Taylor and I will be heading down to Norman later this evening for the 2nd Round of the NIT in what should be a tough game versus St. Bonaventure.
The goal is to compete and win the tournament if possible. To get better for next fall.