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    November 2, 2010

    Prepare For Phi Slama Dickey

    The James Dickey Era approaches​It may be only the second of November. It may still be the heart of the football season. Baseball is just ending -- unless you're an Astros fan, and then baseball season finished in early April.But as hard as it is to believe, college basketball season is less than ... More >>

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    October 5, 2010

    UH's James Dickey Prepares For His Deliverance

    uh.com Sure he's smiling now. But wait until the season starts​It may seem like it's been awhile since Mack Rhoades and the Houston Cougars hired James Dickey to take over the men's basketball program.But in many ways, the time has been flying by as Dickey and his staff have attempted to se ... More >>

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    April 28, 2010

    Alvin Brooks Gets A Second Chance With UH Hoops

    It may look like a mausoleum, but it's home for the Coogs​The story of the University of Houston men's basketball team can be seen as one of rebirths, second chances, starting over.Head coach James Dickey hasn't been a head coach since losing his job at Texas Tech in 2001. His associate head ... More >>

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    March 22, 2010

    Coogs Show Sparks, But Are One-And-Done In The NCAAs

    Photo courtesy UH​On Friday, I laid out a series of necessary keys that the Houston Cougars had to meet were they to have any chance of defeating the Maryland Terrapins in Friday night's opening-round NCAA Tournament match. You've seen the final score by now: Maryland 89, Houston 77. But at th ... More >>

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    March 19, 2010

    Tonight: The Coogs In The Big Dance

    Photo courtesy UH​The improbable post-season run of the Houston Cougars continues tonight as they face the fourth-seeded Maryland Terrapins in a first-round Midwest Regional match-up. It's no secret that Maryland, which tied Duke for the regular-season championship of the ACC, is the favorite in ... More >>

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    March 15, 2010

    Cougars Are, At Long Last, A Part Of March Madness Again

    Photo courtesy UH​I owe Tom Penders and his players an apology. I thought that there was no chance of the Houston Cougars running the table in the C-USA men's basketball tournament, and thus making the NCAA Tournament. And I wrote such.Boy was I wrong.The Cougars pulled off the expected defeat ... More >>

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    March 12, 2010

    Coogs Keep March Madness Hopes Alive

    Photo courtesy UH​The Houston Cougars refuse to die, yesterday upsetting Memphis to advance to the C-USA conference tournament semifinals. The final score was 65-64, which came about because of Aubrey Coleman's leaning jumper which banked in off the backboard with five seconds remaining.Memphis' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Coogs Off To Good Start In The C-USA Tournament

    Photo courtesy UH​The Houston Cougars won their first game in the C-USA men's basketball tournament yesterday, defeating ECU 93-80.The game was close for most of the first half, but the Cougars went on a spurt at the end to take the 50-37 halftime lead. The Cougars continued that spurt in the se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Cougars Aren't Giving Up As C-USA Tournament Begins

    Photo courtesy UH​A season that began with high hopes came quickly crashing down for the Cougars, and with Saturday's loss to the Tulane Green Wave, the Cougars finished the season at 15-15. The C-USA Tournament begins today, and the Cougars find themselves as the seventh seed preparing to face a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Coogs' Kelvin Lewis Helps Rip The Mustangs

    Photo courtesy UH​The Cougars shot only 32.2 percent from the field on Saturday afternoon while the SMU Mustangs shot 38.2 percent. Usually when the Cougars shooting percentage has been this bad this season, they have lost. But they got the 66-60 win on Saturday because the Cougars did have an inc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Coogs Hoping For Big Things From Kendrick Washington

    ​One of the main reasons the Cougars have been floundering on the court has been the lack of a consistent, dominating inside presence. When there's no inside game, it's not possible for the Cougars to play their preferred fastbreak type of offense.That's why the recent emergence of freshman Kendr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Coogs Stay Alive, Beating Marshall

    Photo courtesy UH​The Houston Cougars were coming off a two-game losing streak, and they were playing the Marshall Thundering Herd, one of the surprise teams of C-USA (but also coming off a two-game losing streak). With the losing streak, the Cougars were falling out of contention in C-USA, and a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Coogs Lose...Is The Clock Ticking On Tom Penders?

    Photo courtesy UH​The Houston Cougar football and basketball teams have one thing in common: neither can defeat the University of Central Florida.But whereas football coach Kevin Sumlin just received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract extension, it might well be that this 78-71 Cougar lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Players-Only Meeting Helps Inspire Coog Win

    Photo courtesy UH​A glance at the box score from last night's 75-65 Cougar win over the UTEP Miners might make one think that the key to victory was Kelvin Lewis nailing three three-pointers on his way to 13 points and 10 rebounds. Or maybe Maurice McNeil roaming the paint for 12 points and 10 r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    UH Loses: Fans Tossed From The Game

    Photo by UH​Hofheinz Pavilion was a rather interesting place to be on Saturday night. There was the Houston Cougars playing a conference opponent in front a national television audience. There was a close game that saw the Cougars down by only one point with 1:19 remaining in the game.Oh, yeah, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Rice Proves To Be Cure For Struggling Coogs

    Photo courtesy UH​The Houston Cougars didn't see the old year out in the fashion they wanted, and they sure haven't seen the new year in in the fashion they desired. Coming into last night's battle with the Rice Owls at Tudor Fieldhouse, the Cougars had lost three straight, including a stunning N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Coogs Come Out Flat-Footed Against La. Tech

    Photo courtesy UH​The Houston Cougars (7-4) lost 99-94 to the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (12-2) last night in what UH head coach Tom Penders called a "rock-em-sock-em up-and-down great basketball game." And despite the loss, it was one of the more exciting games played inside Hofheinz Pavilion this s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Coogs Still In Transition As Conference Play Nears

    Photo courtesy UH​The Houston Cougar men's basketball team found just the way to go into the Christmas break, with a 105-81 win over the TCU Horned Frogs that was close for the first half of the first half, but then saw the Cougars move into pull-away mode. Kelvin Lewis was hot in the first ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Coogs' Shooting Touch Returns

    Photo courtesy UH​All that it took for the Houston Cougars to recover from their last-minute loss to the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Saturday afternoon was a phone call and a little trap. And recover the team did nicely, defeating The Citadel last night 81-58.The phone call in question was place ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    Coogs Lost Their Shooting Touch This Weekend

    The bench did not show up for the Houston Cougars Saturday afternoon. Their three-point shooting ability took the afternoon off. Kelvin Lewis and Adam Brown struggled from the field the entire day. And Aubrey Coleman had a flash back to the days of Phi Slama Jama where making a free throw was cause ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Tough Stretch For UH Begins This Weekend

    Photo courtesy UH​The Cougar basketball team is taking on the Mississippi State Bulldogs tomorrow afternoon, and it's this game, probably more than any other non-conference game, that head coach Tom Penders has been pointing his guys toward. This is the game he discussed the most in off-season cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    UH Struggles Against Troy, Exam Schedule

    Photo courtesy UH​One of the myriad NCAA justifications for the lack of a Division One football playoff is the distraction that such a playoff would provide to players attempting to write papers, take finals and just get through the end of the semester. ut maybe the NCAA should check with Houston ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Coogs Basketball's Three-Headed Monster, And How They Had To Go To Alaska To Play Oklahoma

    Photo courtesy UH​Lost amidst the anxiety over the Houston Cougar football team and possible bowl game scenarios, the men's basketball team took to the court at Hofheinz Pavilion on Sunday afternoon and engaged the Texas A&M-Corpus Christ Islanders in a fast-paced game that saw the Cougars eme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Cougar Basketball So Far: Lots Of Offense, Not Much D

    Photo courtesy UH​The question mark for the Houston Cougars basketball team coming into this season was the defense. Head coach Tom Penders noted that when interviewed during practice before the season, and he reiterated it after the first game against Nicholls State.And it's something he reiter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    UH Football And Basketball Have Big Weekends On Tap

    ​One season is ending. One season is just beginning. But for the Houston Cougars, it's a big Thanksgiving weekend either way with the football team playing for the C-USA West title, and the basketball team up in Alaska playing against Big 12 power Oklahoma in the Great Alaska Shootout on Thurs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Coogs Open The Basketball Season With A Solid, If Expected, Win

    Photo courtesy UH​On Monday night, Cal State-Fullerton defeated UCLA in one of those so-called easy basketball openers that so-called major powers are supposed to easily win. Kind of like Houston's Tuesday night opener against Nicholls State was supposed to be one of the easy games for a so-call ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Coog Hoops Has Leaders, Bulk And A Good Shot At March Madness

    Photo courtesy UH​The time has come. The time for Tom Penders and his Cougars basketball team to show their worth. The hopes are that this squad is one that will make the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the early 1990s.There are a couple of things working in the team's favor. First and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Mess With the Owl, Get the Horn-Shaped Tufted Feathers

    "Say 'O RLY?' to me and it's your effing face, cowboy." I'm not sure what exactly is going on with Houston's college basketball teams, but it does appear that there might be something in the water. First there was Houston's Aubrey Coleman stepping on the face of Arizona's Chase Budinger on Saturday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Mess With the Owl, Get the Horn-Shaped Tufted Feathers

    "Say 'O RLY?' to me and it's your effing face, cowboy." I'm not sure what exactly is going on with Houston's college basketball teams, but it does appear that there might be something in the water. First there was Houston's Aubrey Coleman stepping on the face of Arizona's Chase Budinger on Saturday ... More >>

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