***2025-26 Mens College Basketball Thread***
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If Houston wins Monday, does Sampson call it a career? He turns 70 this year. Have no idea how long he plans on coaching.
Sampson,” We don’t play in a blue league, we play in the BIG 12!
Love Hakeem! I saw him play in person for both the Houston Cougars (@ LSU) AND the Houston Rockets (@ Orlando Magic). That Clyde Drexler dude wasn't too bad either!
He made a comment about his age in a pregame interview that alluded to this. Wouldn't be surprising if this is his final season. You can tell that he really loves his players. Great coach!
Lots of respect for him!
So after all the talk about the SEC this year, if Houston wins the championship, would that be 3 different B12 teams winning it the past 5 years?
There’s an article out there somewhere that alludes to it. Maybe in The Athletic. Said there were a half dozen uber millionaire Duke alums that got together to form their own collective. Minimum 1.5m to get in, I think. No public solicitation. Very quiet. Just source uber donors.
Good chance BYU’s one guy is outspending them combined, they’re beating them with top 5 hs and euro recruits.
Every program needs that one weird billionaire who picks this as a weird hobby basically.
Isn't most of this team graduating/leaving the team? I know Houston has a great NIL for basketball, but even then that's a lot to replace in a short time. I think he might give it one more go if most of the team remains intact, but if not, I wouldn't be surprised to see him go.
Not having to listen to announcers creaming their pants over Cooper Flagg will be great for sure.
Sampson gave a lot of love to the Big 12 and the Big 12 season in his in court interview after the game.
We didn’t play in the “toy poodle league!”
We didn’t play in the “toy poodle league!”
Espn is all about what Duke did wrong, not what Houston did right. Shocking.
