64 years ago tonight, a KKK leader from South Carolina thought that he'd head up to Robeson County, North Carolina to intimidate the Lumbee Tribe at a nighttime rally.
The ensuing rout of the Klan has become known as the Battle of Hayes Pond. ❤️✊🏽
#Lumbee
The 2021-2022 Houston Cougars…so very proud to be apart of this program and go to battle for these guys ❤️
- AAC Regular Season Champions
- AAC Tournament Champions
- Elite Eight
- 32-6
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I have loved every moment that I have spent with this team. We started this journey in June and ends with 33 wins, an American Conference Championship and a Sweet 16 Appearance. So very proud
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Happy Anniversary to My Parents... No way they knew what was in store for them on this day... Just hold tight and enjoy the ride!!!!!
@CoachSampsonUH
❤️❤️❤️
"I can't overstate how difficult it is, for most programs, to make a jump like the jump Houston made from the AAC to the Big 12. But they have made it look very, very simple."
—
@GaryParrishCBS
on
@UHCougarMBK
The older I get the more impressed I am with my dad. Not because he is perfect but because he never stops trying to get better. Happy Father’s Day to my dad… who can make me laugh like no other ❤️
Happy Anniversary to my Amazing Parents! As Papa Ned always said, it's not about the destination but about the journey... And these two have been unbelievable examples of that... So blessed and proud to be their daughter! ❤️
This was 7 years ago… before we were a
@Jumpman23
program, before the Fertitta Center and before we had gone to
@MarchMadnessMBB
… we worked just as hard and what was true then remains true now… First game is this Monday and we need you!
#ForTheCity
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Happy Birthday to My Dad
@CoachSampsonUH
! From driving me to dance class to attempting to teach me golf, he has shown me how to fight, I am proud to be apart of his program & be his daughter. I get a front row seat to watch 1 of the greatest of all time do what he does best! ❤️
Happy Birthday to My Dad
@CoachSampsonUH
... He makes me laugh like no other and I am so proud to be apart of his program and be his daughter... I get a front row seat to watch one of the greatest of all time do what he does best! ❤️
Happy Birthday to my dad,
@coachsampsonuh
! I continue to be so proud to be his daughter & inspired by his courage to voice his opinion & fight for what is right. Thank you for making us laugh, pushing us to be better & trivia quizzes that never (😳) gets old! I love you! ❤️
“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something”
RIP John Lewis ❤️
#tbt
to 2015-Year 2 of the Sampson Era-I spent the day in meetings on campus telling folks we play basketball (shocking some) & spent the pm in Hofheinz at our photo shoot. I stood behind my dad & took this picture. I knew what was being built was going to be special
#ForTheCity
From summer basketball camp, Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, traveling back and forth from TSU, road trips, the man bun and so much more, I have been proud each and every day to be apart of this program. I am so lucky to be apart of the
#ForTheCity
movement ❤️
#GoCoogs
At the
@UHCougarMBK
game tonight and I have to admit how wrong I was about
@laurenEsampson
. When she was hired I thought it was simply a nepo job. BUT what she has done to make an incredible in-game experience for UHMBK is unreal. She should be running football game day too 🐾
In 2016, Coach Sampson was personally asking students if they’d come to basketball games.
Today, he’s built a culture that packs the Fertitta Center every week.
Once in a while it is important to remember how far we have come & to appreciate every step on our journey-We are no where close to our finish line but I so love each one of those players who trusted us those early years when we played in front of so few.
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This journey started in June and took us from Italy to Hawaii.... with stops across America. It ends with our 2nd AAC Championship and a million memories. I will miss this team and I am so proud to be apart of the
@uhcougarmbk
Family! ❤️
#ForTheCity
#GoCoogs
We have been working on this for 4 years…. From the research, design concept and oh so many meetings…. We are not finished yet but I loved seeing these smiling faces ! ❤️
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Kelvin Sampson’s favorite net-cutting experience was his first, when he carried 2-year-old
@laurenEsampson
up the ladder following a championship at Montana Tech.
Happy Birthday to My Dad! He makes me laugh like no other and I am so proud to be apart of his program and be his daughter... I get a front row seat to watch one of the greatest of all time do what he does best! ❤️
One of the greatest to ever pick up a whistle...
@CoachSampsonUH
receives 𝑯𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒚 𝑰𝒃𝒂 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 as National Coach of the Year from
@USBWA
Second time in his career to earn this honor
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🔗 –
I can’t tell you how many conversations we had and how relentless we were and continue to be. The vision was there and he put it in action. So proud to be apart of this program
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Kelvin Sampson’s wife Karen on her husband’s journey to get where he is w/
@UHCougarMBK
: “We started at have-nots.When u don’t have the best players.U don’t have the best facilities.U don’t have. U got to make your have-nots a have..This is nothing new for him.This is in his DNA”
My 1st year with
@UHCougarMBK
I saw
@EdwinM201
at a game & introduced myself. I had 1 question... how did you hear about our game cause non of the other students did!😂 From that point on he made it his mission to fill the student section
#ForeverThankful
#ForTheCity
#GoCoogs
“Thirty seven years ago is irrelevant to our team. Our team is now. . . People should be heaping praise on this group of kids. This is about this group of kids. What they’ve accomplished.” — UH coach Kelvin Sampson.
🗣
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Maddie was one of my interns when I first got to UH in the athletics marketing & she followed me to basketball… the amount of flyers, door knocking, poster sign making and lord knows what else we did those early days makes seeing her so much fun! (Oh… and we got the win) ❤️
Happy Birthday to My Dad
@CoachSampsonUH
❤️ Coaching is not just a profession but his calling & I am so proud to be apart of his program and be his daughter... I get a front row seat to watch one of the greatest of all time do what he does best!
Happy Father’s Day to My Dad
@CoachSampsonUH
! From driving me to dance class to attempting to teach me golf, he has shown me how to fight, I am proud to be apart of his program & his daughter. I get a front row seat to watch 1 of the greatest of all time do what he does best! ❤️
From building forts, sledding down stairs (sorry mom), playing kick-the-can, to being his first-mate at the lake, I am so proud to be Kellen’s sister... Happy Birthday
@kellenmsampson
So proud every time I see this bus on campus! I loved designing them and how hard everyone in
@UHCougarMBK
worked to earn them! 😍💍
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You know what a great sound is? Basketball’s dribbling…. Sneakers on hardwood… that unmistakable sound of a basketball slicing through the net… the start of the 2021-22 season is here! ❤️
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I cry every time I hear this song… so many special moments… as my Papa Ned always said, “enjoy the JOURNEY”…. I really did with this special, unique group ❤️
So proud to be a part of this program
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