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Houston guard Jamal Shead presents Drake with custom jersey
Although Drake has recently been connected with the No. 3 Kentucky Wildcats, the rapper adds another college basketball team to his list of fandoms. On Selection Sunday, Houston University chairman and Houston Rockets owner Tilman J. Feritta brought out Drake while celebrating the Houston Cougars’ No. 1 seed in the South Region. “We always want […]
Continue readingIowa State cruises past Houston, wins Big 12 Tournament
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — T.J. Otzelberger nearly let the Big 12 Tournament trophy slip through his hands before adjusting his grip and raising it above his head, that polo shirt so many people find so comically tight on Iowa State’s coach stretching just a little bit more. There was nothing funny about the way the […]
Continue readingMen’s Champ Week matchups we hope to see
While the NCAA tournament gets all of the buzz each year, Champ Week often produces the best basketball of the postseason. Some of the one-bid leagues have already given us buzzer-beaters and game winners in the course of sending their lone representatives to the field of 68, so now we turn to the major conferences […]
Continue readingHouston clinches outright Big 12 title, then routs Kansas by 30
HOUSTON — Jamal Shead had 13 points, six rebounds and eight assists, Damian Dunn added 12 points and No. 1 Houston dominated No. 14 Kansas 76-46 on Saturday. The win came soon after the Cougars, in their first season in the Big 12, secured the outright conference regular-season title following No. 6 Iowa State’s loss […]
Continue readingSVP’s One Big Thing: Honoring team leaders on senior night
We’re coming up on the four-year anniversary of the night it all stopped. The unknowns about COVID-19 slammed the brakes on most everything. We kept doing shows and one of the coolest things our show has ever gotten to do: #seniornight. We got to shine a light on those whose seasons and careers just ended […]
Continue readingNo. 1 Houston rallies past UCF, clinches share of Big 12 title
ORLANDO, Fla. — L.J. Cryer scored 19 of his 25 points in the second half to lift No. 1 Houston to a come-from-behind 67-59 victory over UCF on Wednesday night and clinch at least a share of the regular-season Big 12 title in the Cougars’ first season in the conference. Houston, which moved from the […]
Continue reading32 men’s basketball players who could become breakout stars of the postseason
And then the NCAA tournament began. By the time Kansas State got to its Elite Eight matchup against Florida Atlantic, Nowell — who would score 30 points in a Wildcats loss — had become a must-see player. That’s how quickly everything can change in the college basketball postseason. While this regular season failed to produce […]
Continue readingHouston tops AP men’s hoops poll; Kansas drops out of top 10
Houston still has a tight grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25. The Cougars received 52 first-place votes from a 62-person media panel in the men’s poll released Monday to hold the top spot for the second straight week. UConn moved up a spot to No. 2 and had six first-place votes to […]
Continue readingMen’s Power Rankings: How far do Kansas, Alabama drop after losses?
Is there some separation — and semblance of calm — coming to 2023-24 college basketball just as we enter the madness of March? After four months of action that saw top-15 teams getting upset seemingly every single night, this past week saw just five losses from teams ranked in the top 16 of last week’s […]
Continue readingJamal Shead buzzer-beater sends Houston past Oklahoma
NORMAN, Okla. — Jamal Shead hit a short follow shot with 0.4 seconds left, and No. 1 Houston beat Oklahoma 87-85 on Saturday night, giving coach Kelvin Sampson a victory over one of his former schools. Shead missed a driving layup attempt, but corralled the rebound and put the Cougars back ahead after they blew […]
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