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June 13, 2008

Sampson and NCAA in closed meeting

SEATTLE (AP) — Former Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson emerged with a smile from an eight-hour, closed-door hearing before a NCAA panel that will determine whether he violated recruiting rules.

He was with his lawyers after a day full of end runs around public view. Throughout the day, men in suits and ties served as lookouts for inquiring minds from the back service exits of the hotel.

“It went well. It’s a process,” Sampson said of the hearing based on the NCAA’s accusations of Sampson providing false and misleading information to investigators about more than 100 impermissible calls.

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