J’Wan Roberts didn’t score a single point in Houston’s 2021 Final Four run.
He pulled down only one rebound in four total minutes on the court in the 2021 NCAA Tournament, two of which came in the Cougars’ tournament-opening game against Cleveland State and the other two against Baylor in the national semifinal game.
To the outside, Roberts’ contributions to Houston’s 2021 Final Four run appear trivial, yet Kellen Sampson still gets chills when talking about the role the 6-foot-7-inch forward played that March into early April.
Why?
To Sampson, UH likely does not go on its historic NCAA Tournament run without Roberts willingly embracing a new role that would not result in him seeing the court much.