Kelvin Sampson’s Redemption at Houston

It seems all fell into place this week-end in college basketball and in the state of Indiana simultaneously.

Former Hoosier Mike Woodson was hired as the new coach of the once iconic Hoosier program while former estranged Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson took his team to the Final Four with a win over Cinderella Oregon State last night in March Madness.

It feels as if the basketball gods have made this good for all parties involved.

Kelvin was fired at Indiana and banned from coaching college basketball for in essence doing things which aren’t even violations anymore. He continued coaching as an assistant in the NBA and when his ban had expired he took the job at Houston seven years ago.

The story was culminated last night as for the first time since the glory days of Guy Lewis in the mid ’80s the Houston Cougars have made the Final Four field with a gritty team which embodies the very basketball personality of Kelvin.

As an OU fan who enjoyed watching Kevin’s teams I think it’s great he has turned Houston back into the national power it once was back in the day when mens’ college basketball was more prominent than it is today as far as viewership and interest.

Nice to see Baylor advance as well as Scott Drew’s story in Waco is truly one of the remarkable stories in collegiate sports considering the dark siuation he inherited when he took the job seventeen years ago. I’ll maybe touch on that more once our Final Four field is completed later this evening.

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