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BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 29 (UPI) -- Kelvin Sampson Wednesday was named the new men's basketball coach at Indiana University, replacing Mike Davis, who resigned this month.
Sampson coached men's basketball at Oklahoma for the last 12 years.
"Indiana is one of those special places where you say 'basketball', and Indiana is an automatic word association," Sampson said at a news conference. "Every coach sees it as a great basketball state with tremendous high school coaches and players, and we will do our best to keep those players in the state."
Sampson had a 279-109 record with the Sooners, and took them to the post-season every year since he arrived for the 1994-95 campaign.
"The trademarks of Coach Sampson's teams are that they are hard-nosed, disciplined and unselfish," said IU Athletic Director Rick Greenspan.
The fiery Davis announced his resignation at mid-season but stayed with the program through the end of the campaign. Davis' Hoosiers beat Sampson's Sooners in the national semifinals in 2002.
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