J im Nantz has had enough of colleagues, friends and strangers trying to “console” him for the University of Houston’s loss in the national championship game. No matter how well meaning the sentiments might be, to Nantz they completely miss the reality of the run Kelvin Sampson’s team made.

“I don’t pay any attention to people that look at me with sympathy in their eyes and say, ‘Oh. . .too bad about that,’ ” Nantz tells PaperCity . “Wait a minute. Too bad about what ? Blew through the Big 12 conference for the second straight year. . . We raced through the regular season and the conference. We won a regional by blowing out a great Tennessee team. We beat Duke with three guys in the draft that went very high, including first overall .

“We did ourselves enormously proud. And there’

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