This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star

and the American people.

To subscribe to our podcasts, go to the I-Heart Radio app, wherever you get your podcasts.

Up next, a story about one of the biggest scandals in college basketball history,

along with one of its biggest turnarounds.

Let's take a listen.

My name's Matt Saman, and I'm the head boys basketball coach at Great Fine Faith Christian School,

right outside of DFW, Dallas, Fort Worth.

And that's what I do full time, but what I get to tell my players about is a story that a lot of them haven't heard before,

but their parents are probably familiar with or I remember at some point hearing about what happened with Baylor basketball,

you know, in the early 2000s. And one of my dreams growing up was to be a Division I basketball

player, but I never dreamt of being part of one of the largest scandals or tragedies in college

basketball history. And going into my senior year down in Waco, that's exactly where I found myself.

But before that, you kind of have to start back at how did

basketball become so important to me. So I grew up in eastern Pennsylvania in a small little town

called Berwick PA. And my family and I were very active in church. And I would say that we did church really well.

Every Sunday, Sunday night, Wednesdays, we were up there.

And at a young age, I prayed a prayer when I was about five and accepted Christ into my heart,

but just grew up with that type of head knowledge.

But it was really when I was nine years old is when I fell

in love. And I fell in love with basketball. One thing that was really big that separated me from

...