Kelvin Sampson coached for 12 seasons at Oklahoma (1994-2006) and advanced to the NCAA Tournament 11 times, including the 2002 Final Four when he was named NABC coach of the year. He was 1995 Associated Press coach of the year, his first season with the Sooners, won three straight Big 12 Tournament titles (2001-03) and shared the 2005 Big 12 regular-season crown.

When he accepted the Indiana job in 2006, Sampson left with a 279-109 record and the best winning percentage (.719) of any OU men's basketball coach. However, the Sooners and Hoosiers suffered NCAA sanctions under Sampson's watch for impermissible phone calls to recruits. Fired at Indiana before the end of his second season there, Sampson joined the San Antonio Spurs staff two weeks later in an advisory role. He then became an assistant for the Milwaukee Bucks and joined the Houston Rockets staff in 2011.

Sampson married the former Karen Lowery and they have a daughter, Lauren (30), who is a pharmaceutical rep, and a son, Kellen (27), who is an assistant at Appalachian State.

When Karen and I started dating, a big part of our dating life was watch ACC basketball on Saturday afternoons at her house. Back then, I was always a Dean Smith fan. I loved the way he treated high school coaches. Coach Smith would invite all the high school coaches to the blue-white scrimmage and he would personally shake their hand, greet them, look them in the eye and just treated them so good.