College Basketball

Mayor Turner, on behalf of the City, will present the NCAA and Houston Local Organizing Committee with a citywide proclamation, recognizing March 31 - April 3, 2023, as Men's Final Four Week across Houston.

You would think the Texas Governor would have confidence a Texas team would win it all in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, but Abbott decided to choose a different state's team as his March Madness champion.

University of Houston guard Marcus Sasser has been named to the AP All-American first team. Sasser led the Cougars to a 31-3 record, AAC Regular Season and Tournament championship, and a number-1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

TDECU, Houston’s largest credit union, is announcing the creation of TDECU Assist, a new platform as a part of its first NIL agreement with student-athletes from the University of Houston. The Name Image Likeness agreements are with Jamal Shead, Ja’Vier Francis, Emanuel Sharp, Terrance Areceneaux and Ryan Elvin, from the Men’s Cougars Basketball Team, and Laila Blair, Brittney Onyeje, Tatyana Hill, and Taryn Johnson, from the Lady Cougars Basketball Team.

The University of Houston Cougars and Texas Southern Tigers will both be headed to the NCAA Tournament after this weekend's matchups.

Houston received the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region for the NCAA Tournament on Sunday night, the selection committee rewarding the Cougars at the expense of Kansas, which had been hoping its national title defense would include a stop just down the road from its campus in Lawrence.

The Houston Cougars, the No. 1-ranked team in the country, and Memphis Tigers were deadlocked at 65 apiece in the final seconds of Sunday’s men’s basketball game when the former had a chance to avoid an upset with the ball in their hands.

"Adams was encouraging the student-athlete to be more receptive to coaching and referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters," officials at Texas Tech said in a statement.