{"id":437087,"date":"2025-04-08T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=437087"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:40:56","slug":"kelvin-sampson-incomprehensible-ending-as-houston-falls-in-ncaa-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kelvin-sampson-incomprehensible-ending-as-houston-falls-in-ncaa-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Sampson: &#8220;Incomprehensible Ending&#8221; as Houston Falls in NCAA Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Sampson called Houston\u2019s NCAA championship loss to Florida &#8220;<strong>incomprehensible<\/strong>.&#8221; After leading nearly the entire game, the Cougars collapsed in the final minute, committing <strong>four consecutive turnovers<\/strong> and falling 65-63 in one of the most stunning finishes in tournament history.<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s comeback \u2014 the <strong>third-largest ever in a title game<\/strong> \u2014 left Houston heartbroken. <strong>Emanuel Sharp<\/strong>, whose two late turnovers sealed their fate, broke down in tears postgame. Sampson stood by his star guard: \u201cWe don\u2019t get here without that kid. I told him I loved him. He did an incredible job defensively on Clayton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The loss denied Sampson what would have been his <strong>800th career win<\/strong> and a potential first-ballot <strong>Hall of Fame<\/strong> nod. \u201cThis team was built for this moment,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why it hurts so much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cougars&#8217; coach stunned after his team blew a 12-point lead and lost the title to Florida. &#8220;We were built to win this tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":437086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-437087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-alle-15.38.03.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437087"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=437087"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=437087"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=437087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}