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What a difference a year makes for Hoosiers' Sampson

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Flushed with the thrill of a second-half lead on the No. 2 team in the country, the relentlessly rowdy Indiana student section filled the dead air of a dead-ball situation with an impromptu chant: "Kel-vin Samp-son!" Clap, clap, clap-clap-clap. "Kel-vin Samp-son!" Clap, clap, clap-clap-clap. This was significant. Ten months ago, when he was surprisingly hired away from Oklahoma, the refrain in this state was dramatically different: "Kel-vin Samp-son?" they asked, ...

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