Kelvin Sampson broke down Houston's gorgeous game-winning inbounds play vs. Purdue

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Houston's gorgeous inbounds play that led to the game-winning hoop against Purdue to help the Cougars advance to the Elite Eight in 2025 will be remembered for a long time (even though referees missed a blatant offensive foul call before then that would have changed the whole game).

It was beautiful: Milos Uzan inbounded it and then was left open as he stepped on to the court. He got the ball right back and hit the easy layup for what would be the game-winner.

So how did head coach Kelvin Sampson draw it up? What was his thinking there? Turns out it was "a three-option read" that Houston has practiced a lot, and the third option was open. When Uzan's defender left him, the pass came right back to him for the open bucket.

Watch the play and Sampson breaking it down below:

Here's the inbounds play that won it for Houston over Purdue​

NO WAY

HOUSTON TAKES THE LEAD IN THE FINAL SECOND #MarchMadnesspic.twitter.com/L2wCPQ34gD

— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) March 29, 2025

Kelvin Sampson's quotes about the inbounds play​

Kelvin Sampson on the final #Houston inbounds play, which was 3-option read. He says it rarely gets to the third option except in practice.
"We don't run it enough for a team to be sitting on it."
He told me they practiced it one of the last 2 days.@KHOUpic.twitter.com/DU4LMLoMeQ

— Jason Bristol (@JBristolKHOU) March 29, 2025

He made it sound simple, but I'm sure it wasn't!

This article originally appeared on For The Win: Kelvin Sampson talks Houston inbounds play vs. Purdue in March Madness

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