Sampson says he gave ‘right answer’

IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson disputed parts of a report that claim he knowingly participated in impermissible three-way recruiting phone calls.\nDuring his weekly press conference with reporters, Sampson said he gave “the right answer” when he told investigators he and former assistant men’s basketball coach Rob Senderoff did not talk at the same time during three-way recruiting phone calls.\n“I know what I know and that’s all I need to say on that,” Sampson said. “What I said … was the right answer.”\nAccording to a report submitted to the NCAA Committee on Infractions, one recruit and another recruit’s mother told investigators they remember Sampson and Senderoff talking at the same time, which refutes Sampson’s and Senderoff’s account that Senderoff stayed on the line only as an operator and did not talk.\nSampson maintains he knew that only one of the calls 10 calls was a three-way call. Three-way calls violate NCAA sanctions Sampson received for 577 excessive phone calls he and his staff made while Sampson coached at Oklahoma.\n- For more on the men's basketball team see Friday's Indiana Daily Student