W atching Kingston Flemings take off, throw down and pick apart his beloved zone defenses, veteran Oakland coach Greg Kampe cannot help but be a little fascinated. Not by Flemings’ talent, that’s obvious. By what Kelvin Sampson is trying to pull off with this University of Houston team.

“It’s hard to win a national championship in this day and age with freshmen,” Kampe tells PaperCity. “Especially multiple freshmen. If anybody can do it, it’s Kelvin.

“Because he’s not going to allow anything. There’s going to be no deterioration of his culture and what they do. And those kids are going to learn to play at the level they played tonight.”

It is shaping up as the most compelling and most important story of this entire college basketball season in many ways. Can Kelvin Sampson make anoth

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