He also thought about Arizona’s legendary coach Lute Olson. “But I would be lying if I didn’t tell you that I didn’t have a thought of the old silver fox down there,” he said ...

TUCSON, ARIZ.? Arizona coach Lute Olson is taking a leave of absence for unspecified personal reasons. In a statement issued by his public-relations firm Sunday, the 73-year-old Hall of Famer said ...

Sampson relayed how he became the 31-year-old coach of another Cougar team, in Washington State, back in 1987 at exactly the same time that Lute Olson had turned the Wildcats into a national power.