With Kelvin Sampson pushing them into the elite, Houston finally can live in the present. MarchMadness
USA TODAY's college basketball guru Scott Gleeson gets you set for the Sweet 16 with the biggest storylines heading into the second week of the tournament.SAN ANTONIO — It would be impossible to say that the Final Four banners hanging in dingy Hofheinz Pavilion were still aspirational by the time Kelvin Sampson arrived in 2014.
Sampson is making this point again on Friday because it underscores how satisfying, and how remarkable, it is for him to be on the verge of taking Houston to a second straight Final Four. And at this moment, the Cougars — seeded No. 5 in the South Regional — are the team that has the best chance of winning the national title, according to the betting markets and analytics.
“We've had to overcome a lot in those first few years, whereas a school like Villanova can't relate to that,” Sampson said. “They've always been Villanova.” “When you come to a place like Villanova, you do benefit from great tradition there are a lot of foundations set in place, a history, a pride,” Wright said. “But there can be interruptions sometimes. We even had it during our tenure a little bit and you can have one down year and people want to go back to the glory days. I have great respect for the difficulty when you’re at a program like Houston when they had a great history, there’s a lot of pressure on you as a coach to get it back there.
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