After weeks of speculation, the Big 12 has finally made a decision as to whether it’ll be adding members in the future. On Friday morning, the Big 12 announced that it extended membership invitations to BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF. All four programs were linked to the conference ever since Oklahoma and Texas announced their […]
Read MoreCollege Football Insider Shares Potential Timeline For Big 12 To Add 4 Teams
After having Oklahoma and Texas poached by the SEC, the Big 12 is going on the offensive. According to multiple reports, the league is eyeing BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF to bring membership back up to 12. There have been plenty of rumors about what may happen with the Big 12 with Texas and Oklahoma […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2021 College Football Staff Picks: Week 1
College football is back. We got a sneak preview of what is to come last weekend, with Illinois‘ win over Nebraska, and blowout Week Zero wins for Fresno State, San Jose State, UCLA, and UTEP. This week, we get the first full course of the 2021 college football feast. After last year’s abbreviated, COVID-19-stricken season, […]
Read MoreCollege Sports World Reacts To The Latest Big 12 News
The Big 12 has some major decisions to make as it looks to remain viable after the departures of Oklahoma and Texas to the SEC. Bob Bowlsby needs to try and keep his current group together, which may be tough if other Power Five leagues come calling for the likes of Oklahoma State, Kansas, West […]
Read MoreReport: 4 Schools ‘Leading Contenders’ To Join The Big 12
It appears that the Big 12 Conference will not allow the impending departure of Oklahoma and Texas to kill it outright. The conference is reportedly eyeing a handful of schools for potential expansion. According to Max Olson of The Athletic, there are four “leading contenders” in the Big 12’s ongoing expansion talks. Per the report, […]
Read MoreFormer LSU QB TJ Finley Announces 4 Transfer Finalists
LSU quarterback TJ Finley entered the NCAA transfer portal earlier this month. And after a few weeks of weighing his options, he’s narrowed the field to four. Speaking to AL.com, Finley revealed that Alabama, Auburn, Houston and Penn State are his four finalists. He will make his decision official on Monday at 11 a.m. CST. […]
Read MoreHouston LB Grant Stuard Is 2021 Mr. Irrelevant, Selected by Buccaneers
The 2021 NFL Draft is in the books. With it, we now know who this year’s Mr. Irrelevant is. Mr. Irrelevant is always one of the most-popular picks of the NFL Draft, named for whomever is taken with the final pick of the seventh and final round. This year, it’s none other than former Houston […]
Read MoreNFL Insider Names 2 Most “Surprising” Picks From First Round
As with every NFL Draft, last night’s offered up plenty of surprises. We had trades, surprise fallers and, of course, surprise risers. But according to NFL insider Tom Pelissero, two picks on Draft Night stood out as “the most surprising” of the evening. Taking to Twitter this morning, Pelissero singled out the Las Vegas Raiders […]
Read MoreFormer College Football Linebacker Charged In Double Murder
Linebacker Zamar Kirven, who most recently played for the Houston Cougars in college football, is facing capital charges in Texas for a double homicide. According to KWTX, Kirven was identified as the alleged suspect in the shooting of two people in Mart, Texas earlier this morning. The victims were aged 22 and 20 and the […]
Read MoreWhy There Was A Long Break In Between Final Four Games
Today’s Final Four featured a longer-than-usual break between games. Baylor‘s blowout win over Houston ended over an hour before the tip-off between Gonzaga and UCLA at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The break between games was not popular for fans watching from home. It was very obvious that the CBS/Turner analysts had a lot of […]
Read MoreKelvin Sampson Had 3-Word Message After Loss To Baylor
On Saturday afternoon, the NCAA Tournament rolled on with two Final Four games and a chance to play for the national title on the line. In the first game of the day, the Houston Cougars faced off against the Baylor Bears. The latter has been arguably the best team in the country not named Gonzaga […]
Read MoreFans Are Loving Davion Mitchell’s Performance Against Houston
Just as they’ve done all season, star guard Davion Mitchell and the Baylor Bears absolutely dominated in the first final Four matchup of the day. Claiming a massive 78-58 victory in the contest, Mitchell and his squad put a beat down on the No. 2 seeded Houston Cougars Saturday evening. No. 45 put on an […]
Read MoreCollege Basketball World Reacts To Jim Nantz’s Saturday Performance
You never could’ve guessed it during his call of Saturday’s Baylor-Houston Final Four game, but Jim Nantz is a Houston alum. Despite his allegiance to the program, he remained completely unbiased during his commentary. College basketball fans everywhere were very impressed with Nantz’s unbiased call of the game. Even in the midst of a Baylor […]
Read MoreBill Walton’s Comment On Houston’s First Half Is Going Viral
Of the two Final Four games today, most figured the undercard between 1-seed Baylor and 2-seed Houston would be fairly close. Baylor has been the second best team in the country behind Gonzaga most of the season, but Houston was a very game AAC champion, who looked solid through most of the NCAA Tournament run. […]
Read MoreThe 4 Biggest Halftime Blowouts In Final Four History
Houston had a historically bad half of basketball against Baylor this afternoon, trailing by 25 points at halftime. It was the kind of performance that makes you wonder where it ranks in NCAA history. Fortunately for the Cougars, their first-half performance against the Bears on Saturday did not generate the largest halftime deficit in Final […]
Read MoreFans Were Confused By Charles Barkley’s Halftime Comment
Houston had major struggles generating any sort of offense and defending the Baylor Bears during Saturday’s Final Four, but it wasn’t the Cougars who had the ugliest performance of the day. That honor would have to go to Charles Barkley. Baylor dominated Houston in the first half of Saturday’s game, jumping out to a 45-20 […]
Read MoreEveryone’s Making The Same Joke About Houston Tonight
All the momentum the Houston Cougars had entering the Final Four came crashing down in the first half against the Baylor Bears. Houston simply couldn’t buy a bucket in the first half against Baylor. At one point, Kelvin Sampson’s squad went six minutes without a made field goal. To make matters worse, the Cougars had […]
Read MoreESPN Computer’s Early Predictions For Saturday’s Final Four
The 2021 Men’s Final Four is set after Gonzaga’s easy W over USC and UCLA’s shocking upset of Michigan on Tuesday night. In the first semifinal this Saturday, Baylor will face Houston in a battle of former SWC foes. The top-seeded Bears will be looking for their first national championship game appearance since 1948, while […]
Read MoreEveryone Is Saying The Same Thing About The SWC Tonight
College sports fans took a trip down memory lane on Monday night as the men’s Elite Eight got underway. Of the four teams in action, three programs used to be members of the historic Southwest Conference, or SWC. Houston, Arkansas and Baylor were all on the court in Indianapolis on Monday, with the latter two […]
Read MoreCollege Basketball World Reacts To Houston Reaching Final Four
The first ticket to the 2021 Men’s Final Four has been punched. Second-seeded Houston is in the Final Four for the first time in nearly 40 years. Back in the days of Phi Slama Jama in the early 1980s, Houston made three-straight Final Fours from 1982-84, with back-to-back national championship appearances those final two trips. […]
Read MoreDick Vitale Predicts Winners Of Monday’s Elite Eight Games
Moments before the start of tonight’s Elite Eight doubleheader, ESPN commentator Dick Vitale revealed his picks for both games. Dickie V has consistently gone with Gonzaga as his national title pick, but he’s adjusted his Final Four as the bracket has progressed. Tonight, he’s rolling with both favorites. Vitale is picking second-seeded Houston to take […]
Read MoreESPN Computer Predicts Winners Of The Elite 8 Games
The NCAA Tournament is down to its final eight teams as the Elite 8 gets set to tip off on Monday night. This year’s slate features a hodgepodge of programs, as a few lower-seeded teams have snuck through the bracket. However, three No. 1 seeds still made it into the Elite 8 and remain heavy […]
Read MoreESPN Computer’s Final Four Prediction After The Second Round
We’ve had a crazy NCAA Tournament through two rounds. Three of the four No. 1 seeds remain, but the Sweet 16 also features an 8 (Loyola Chicago), two 11s (Syracuse, UCLA), a 12 (Oregon State), and the second-ever 15-seed to make it this far (Oral Roberts). It isn’t a huge surprise that ESPN’s Basketball Power […]
Read MoreHere’s The Schedule For Today’s 16 NCAA Tournament Games
Get your brackets in. The NCAA Tournament is finally here, after a long, long year without it. Last night, we got a nice taste of Tournament action with the First Four games. All four games were single-digit affairs. Drake-Wichita State and Norfolk State-Appalachian State were each decided by single possessions, while UCLA mounted a big […]
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