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University of Houston coach Kelvin Sampson was named American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for the second straight year on Wednesday.

Sampson, a semifinalist for national coach of the year, has led the Cougars to one of the best regular seasons in school history. UH was outright AAC champion, matched the single-season school record with 28 wins and moved into the top-10 in the national rankings for the first time since the mid 1980s.

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Sampson joins Guy V. Lewis (1983-84) as the only UH men's basketball coaches to win multiple conference coach of the year awards.

This is the sixth conference coach of the year award for Kelvin Sampson, who also won in the Frontier Conference (Montana Tech) in 1983 and 1985, Pac-10 (Washington State) and Big 8 (Oklahoma).

The Cougars are the No. 1 seed in the AAC tournament, which begins Thursday in Memphis.

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