W ith Dwight Davis’ number set to be retired in a ceremony during the Arizona State game on January 18th (as first reported by PaperCity ), University of Houston coach Kelvin Sampson is happy that oversights in the UH basketball program’s storied history have been righted. Now Sampson is ready to see players from his coaching tenure — the most successful era in Houston basketball history — get put up on the wall.

“We got Don Chaney’s number retired (last season),” Sampson tells PaperCity. “We got Dwight Davis’ number retired. I don’t know if I’ll be around to see it, but Marcus Sasser needs his jersey retired. Jamal Shead, he’s going to have his jersey retired. And it should be done sooner rather than later.”

In fact, the 70-year-old Sampson would love to see Sasser’s No. 0 and S

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