It's the battle of the best father-son coaching duo! Kellen Sampson and Steven Pearl have both played for their fathers and now get to share the stage leading up to the Final Four
More than 350 schools play NCAA Division I men's basketball. Only six feature a father/son coaching duo. Two of those six, and the only two in the 2023 NCAA Tournament, will square off Saturday.
"There's an awesome fraternity amongst coaches' kids that also decide to be coaches and decide to go this route," Kellen Sampson told ABC13 on Friday. "There are so many shared experiences that maybe only one or the other truly understands and can appreciate.""Kellen is an up-and-coming rising star in our profession," Steven Pearl admitted. "I have nothing but respect for him. I've used him to ask questions as far as his experiences.
"Our path to this point has been front-page news stories - good and bad," Kellen said. "It further strengthened our passion to do this because it got tested. We learned to have an awesome appreciation for our Dads. We knew they were husbands. They were dads much more so than they were a basketball coach. In those moments of adversity, we really learned to appreciate our dads."
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