Sampson Named NABC District 25 Coach of the Year

HOUSTON – University of Houston Men's Basketball Head Coach Kelvin Sampson received another postseason honor Friday morning when he was named the National Association of Basketball Coaches District 25 Coach of the Year.

Friday's honor was the fourth District Coach of the Year of his career. He previously received District Coach of the Year honors in 1992 and 1991 (both from Washington State) and in 2018 with Houston.

This was the second Coach of the Year honor that Sampson has received for his team's work in 2018-19.

Earlier this month, he was recognized as the American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. It was the second straight season he received that honor from the league and marked his sixth conference Coach of the Year award from his fourth different league.

For his team's impressive performance in 2018-19, Sampson was previously recognized as a finalist for the Werner Ladder Naismith Coach of the Year Award, the Henry Iba Award, the Jim Phelan Award and the Ben Jobe Award earlier this season.

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ABOUT KELVIN SAMPSON
In 2018-19, Sampson has led the Cougars to a 31-3 record, the program's first outright regular-season conference championship since 1984, Top-10 rankings in both national polls and a No. 3 seed in this week's NCAA Tournament.

His Houston team won its first 15 games to open the season for the program's third-longest winning streak in school history and followed that with a 12-game streak after enduring its first loss at Temple in early January.

After winning 19 straight games in H&PE Arena as their home arena underwent a $60-million renovation, Sampson's Cougars won their first 14 home games in the Fertitta Center and owned the nation's longest home winning streak at 33 games until late February.

With the Cougars' win at SMU in mid-January, Sampson became only the 52^nd coach in NCAA history to reach 600 victories in his career. That win also gave him 100 in his Houston career and made him the fastest coach in UH history to reach that total.

In 2019, he was named the American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for the second straight season, becoming only the second coach in program history to win accomplish that feat and the first since Hall of Fame Coach Guy V. Lewis did so in 1983-84 in the Southwest Conference.

NABC ALL-DISTRICT COACHES
District 1        John Becker, Vermont
District 2        Tony Bennett, Virginia
District 3        Casey Alexander, Lipscomb
District 4        Mike Rhoades, VCU
District 5        Kevin Willard, Seton Hall
District 6        Chris Jans, New Mexico State
District 7        Matt Painter, Purdue
District 8        Chris Beard, Texas Tech
District 9        Mark Few, Gonzaga
District 10     Joe Mihalich, Hofstra
District 11     Jeff Jones, Old Dominion
District 12     Derrin Hansen, Omaha
District 13     Matt Langel, Colgate
District 14     Nate Oats, Buffalo
District 15     Rob Jones, Norfolk State
District 16     Darian DeVries, Drake
District 17     Craig Smith, Utah State
District 18     Rob Krimmel, Saint Francis (Pa.)
District 19     Rick Byrd, Belmont
District 20     Mike Hopkins, Washington
District 21     Rick Barnes, Tennessee
District 22     Mike Young, Wofford
District 23     Joe Golding, Abilene Christian
District 24     Chris Ogden, UT Arlington
District 25     Kelvin Sampson, Houston

UP NEXT
• Sampson and his Cougars return to action as the No. 3 seed at the NCAA Tournament Midwest Region First Round. Houston faces No. 14 seed Georgia State at 6:20 p.m., Friday, inside the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla.
• Friday's NCAA Tournament game can be seen on TBS and can be heard on KPRC 950 AM.

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