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'Quitting is not part of the deal': How Houston's toughness allowed it to stun Duke

SAN ANTONIO -- On the day Jon Scheyer was born in 1987, Kelvin Sampson had just been hired as the head coach at Washington State. By then, he had already spent nearly a decade as an assistant at multiple stops.

All of the basketball games he had won and lost -- the games his teams had squandered and salvaged -- over a career that spans more than four decades taught him the lesson that saved Houston's season and led the program to its third national title game Monday night after a miraculous, come-from-behind win over Duke in the Final Four.