Clearly, the same is true of Kelvin Sampson’s Houston Cougars. Down 64-55 with 125 seconds left, in a game they trailed by 14 just a few minutes earlier, in a game they led for three minutes and ...

One thing that’s obvious about Florida and Houston heading into the national championship game: Neither team is going to quit. Florida was down eight at halftime of the national semifinals ...

For 30-plus minutes in Monday's NCAA title game, Houston's defense flustered a freewheeling Florida offense into playing its own grinding game. But Florida would not be denied. The Gators looked ...

Then, in 2014, he left the Houston Rockets’ staff to become head coach at University of Houston, an American Athletic school with one NCAA Tournament appearance in 22 years. The Cougars — by ...

The Florida Gators (35-4) and the Houston Cougars (35-4) meet Monday night for the national Championship of college basketball. The Cougars stunned Duke, outscoring the Blue Devils 15-3 to close their ...

After a thrilling Saturday night of basketball, Florida and Houston emerged as this year’s competitors in the national championship game. In the Final Four, the Cougars erased a 14-point deficit over ...

SAN ANTONIO — There was a single minute remaining Saturday night, and the Houston Cougars were down six points to the Duke Blue Devils. The odds were not in Houston’s favor. Yet Kelvin Sampson ...

But Houston had other ideas. It reeled off a 10-0 run late in the second half to cut a 59-45 deficit to four points. Houston then ended the game with a 15-3 flurry to secure a 70-67 stunner and ...

There was a monkey on No. 1 Houston's back entering its Final Four contest against Duke. They'd been sitting on the doorstep of the national championship game for over 40 years and lost seven stra ...

Teams with long winning streaks face off when the Houston Cougars meet the Duke Blue Devils in a 2025 NCAA Tournament Final Four matchup on Saturday night. Houston advanced with a 69-50 win over ...

And if so, how can it happen? We reached out to coaches who have faced the other Final Four teams -- Houston, Florida and Auburn-- to see where each team could possibly find an edge against Duke.

Houston uncorked mayhem in the penultimate game of this year's NCAA Tournament with an amazing comeback Saturday to defeat Duke 70-67 in the Final Four. The Cougars erased a 14-point second-half ...