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Lopes: Distance never dimmed recruiting reach

Posted May 24, 2012 on washingtonstate.scout.com
PLAYERS: Kelvin Sampson
IN EIGHT YEARS with Kelvin Sampson at Oklahoma, Ray Lopes built up a Rolodex to last a basketball lifetime. The newest member of Ken Bone’s staff at WSU spent much of the last decade in Moscow and Fresno, but he told Cougfan.com yesterday that his reach never left the fertile recruiting grounds that helped propel Sampson’s Sooners to eight straight NCAA Tournaments and a Final Four appearance.
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