Lon Kruger: Sooners are not rebuilding

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    New Oklahoma Sooners coach Lon Kruger has been through a couple of rebuilding projects.

    This, he says, is different.

    "This program has got great tradition, so we're not rebuilding. We're not bringing it back," Kruger told a crowd of hundreds who gathered Monday at McCasland Fieldhouse to see him formally introduced as the Sooners' coach.

    "We're just hoping to continue what's been very good here for a long time."

    Oklahoma is only two years removed from a trip to the regional finals of the NCAA tournament, but the span since then represents the school's first back-to-back losing seasons since 1967.

    Kruger, 58, spent the last seven seasons rebuilding a struggling program at UNLV and before that coached at Illinois, Kansas State and Florida. He took all four of those schools to the NCAA tournament.

    Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6293873
     

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