diving across the floor on a hurting back, even a No. With Taze Moore playing the best basketball of his entire life, with Jamal Shead proving to be a beyond quick March point guard study, with Kyler Edwards embracing every big shot, with Fabian White Jr. We want to keep it going as long as we possibly can.”
I don’t get this year back with Taze, with Josh, with Kyler, with Fab.
These guys are like my brothers, you know. Including their first two NCAA Tournament games.Īnyone who still has questions about this Houston team has completely missed the test. These oft dismissed, oft discounted Cougars have now won 26 games by double digits this season. He’s in the moment with every single team as if this is his first team and this is his sixth Sweet 16.” - UH assistant Kellen Sampson on his dad Conquering Kofi With Cougar Know Howīeating an Illinois team with arguably the most physically imposing big man in America (Kofi Cockburn) by 15 points is more Houston doing what Houston does. “I think that’s what makes him so great. There’s nothing corporate. This is a legitimate program we’ve established.” “But to back door a Sweet 16 - go to a Final Four and then you’re able to go to another Sweet 16 the next year - I think it’s just validation. We felt like we earned it every step of the way. Hey, you didn’t beat whoever.’ But we never felt that way. “There’s some people last year who pointed to ‘Hey, it’s a pandemic. “I think a lot of validation,” Kellen Sampson, who will get to build on what he and his dad (and one of college basketball’s best and most complete staffs) have already built at Houston someday, says when I ask what this win means. Whether the college basketball establishment likes it or not. That’s who these Cougars are under Kelvin Sampson. This day is about Houston continuing to establish that it very much belongs right up there with Gonzaga, North Carolina, Villanova, Michigan State and the other rare programs that consistently win in March. The quest will go on in San Antonio in something of a home cooking South Regional that will have Houston playing No. “I know that’s the first thing Fabe told us when we got here: ‘We’re trying to win a Natty.’ ” And make no mistake, with talented players like Taze Moore and Jamal Shead having raised their games in March, this now 31-5 Houston team still hasn’t reached its ceiling. You lose your two most talented players to injury in late December, essentially completely remake the team and still get to the Sweet 16 for the third straight NCAA Tournament. This is how you followup a Final Four season. Houston coach Kelvin Sampson ripped off his shirt to celebrate a Sweet 16 punching win over Illinois.
Houston 68, Illinois 53 certainly qualifies as special.
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