Will Sampson ever get to the promised land? "This was the year right here," Houston forward J'Wan Roberts said. "Shit, I feel like he had a chance to do it but we didn't. How much ever longer that ...

There’s history behind it — specifically last year’s Sweet 16 loss to Duke, when Houston shot 9-of-17 from the free-throw line. Roberts, then a fifth-year senior, accounted for five of those ...