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Kelvin Sampson goes wild in Houston locker room after Cougars beat Illinois
By Andrew Olson
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Kelvin Sampson is taking the Houston Cougars to the Sweet 16 again. Sampson was so excited about Houston’s win over Illinois that he had to ditch his shirt.
Video of a shirtless Sampson taking part in the Houston locker room celebration is going viral on Twitter.
Houston coach Kelvin Sampson went shirtless in the locker room 🤣
(via @CoachAlanBishop)pic.twitter.com/bkFsgu3bgT
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) March 20, 2022
This is the third-straight trip to the Sweet 16 for Sampson’s Cougars. UH made the Final Four last year. Sampson’s first trip to the Sweet 16 with Houston came in 2019. There was no NCAA Tournament in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Sampson was in the Big Ten as Indiana’s head coach from 2006-to-2008. He went to the NBA as an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks and Houston Rockets while under a 5-year NCAA show cause penalty for violations with the Hoosiers. Sampson returned to the college game in 2014, taking the UH job.
A former Florida beat reporter, Andrew writes for the Saturday Tradition News Desk.