When Houston men’s basketball head coach Kelvin Sampson watches the news channels on TV and sees what coronavirus has done to so many communities and families, he never forgets to acknowledge how fortunate he and his team are to be in their position.
“We get on a plane and fly out to play basketball,” Sampson told reporters in a Zoom meeting on Wednesday. “We’re lucky.”
Despite all the uncertainty that this year has brought, and still continues to bring, it is looking like the NCAA Division I basketball season will go on.
On Wednesday, Sampson spoke to reporters ahead of UH men’s basketball’s first official practice for the upcoming season on Friday, and he provided numerous updates on his team, one of which being that zero of his players have tested positive for COVID-19 since the fall began although a few have had to miss workouts due to contact tracing rules.