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Sampson, Huggins have best hope for quick success

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Monday, April 17, 2006

So who is going to pull a Bruce Pearl next season? He took over a mediocre Tennessee program, invigorated the Vols with an uptempo style that emphasized offense (sometimes at the expense of lock-down defense), won big games (at Texas and Florida) and earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Beat that. There have been eight high-profile hires so far with a ninth -- NC State -- still to come, and the most likely to "pull a Pearl" based on what is returning are Kelvin Sampson at Indiana and B ...

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