The Daily Orange · Aug 30, 2017
Syracuse, other programs, answer Houston basketball’s call for help after Tropical Storm Harvey
Kelvin Sampson, Houston's head coach, put out the call for help on Twitter on Monday. By Tuesday, over 100 different donations had been sent in.As the city of Houston begins to recover from storm Harvey, Houston men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson put out a call for help.
Realizing that thousands of people will be needing basic items like clothes and shoes, Sampson asked that coaches on any level send along 20 T-shirts and 10 pairs of shoes, or whatever they could afford to give.
Syracuse and dozens of other high schools and colleges answered the call.